More than 230,000 unemployed workers will lose their jobless benefits this weekend as portions of federal programs expire across several states.
All told, 409,300 long-term unemployed Americans in 27 states will have lost upward of 20 weeks of federal unemployment benefits by this past Saturday, even as the many state jobless rates remain high, according to a new analysis by the National Employment Law Project (NELP).
The latest batch of cuts affects 236,300 unemployed people in eight states — California (11%), Texas (7%) Pennsylvania (7.5%), Florida (9%), Illinois (8.8%) North Carolina (9.7%) Colorado (7.8%) and Connecticut (7.7%) — half of which have jobless rates above the 8.1 percent national average posted in April.
5 comments:
So are we supposed to feel sorry for these people who have already been on the dole for 99 weeks?
People dont seem to relize we are in a depression-take away government spending and its as bad as 1930!
There is 900x this number during the past 9 months... unreported.
5:13 it is actually much much worse. If govt. spending were to end it would be up to charities, family, and neighbors to help one another. That's the way it should be. People would once again learn how to depend upon themselves to survive the hard times. Now the government creates hardtimes and we have to deal with them by depending on the government. Makes no sense at all. Liberal tax and spend government .
So are we supposed to feel sorry for these people who have already been on the dole for 99 weeks?
May 14, 2012 4:31 PM
Obviously not from YOU. If YOU don't show compassion and mercy, do not expect to receive any of same.
Jerk.
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