premise: It's official: California's unemployment insurance benefits will be extended an additional five months, beginning immediately. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Friday that will assist about 469,000 longtime jobless Californians by year's end. The goal is to help families wracked by the recession buy food and pay rent in a year when the state's unemployment rate tops 10 percent. Roughly $3 billion in federal stimulus funds will bankroll the 20-week extension for out-of-work residents who exhaust their existing benefits.
hypothesis: Arnold Schwarzenegger was an actor.