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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Mon May 14, 2012, 11:41 AM May 2012

Report Says 230,000 Unemployed Losing Benefits Over Weekend

By Vicki Needham - 05/13/12 06:24 PM ET

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.

"A growing number of long-term unemployed workers are being left behind," said Christine Owens, executive director of the NELP.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/economy/227075-report-says-230000-unemployed-will-lose-benefits-over-weekend

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Auntie Bush

(17,528 posts)
4. They will all have to apply for welfare
Mon May 14, 2012, 12:44 PM
May 2012

That's going to be costly too...more food stamps! Obama will be blamed for that and more reason to call him the food stamp President.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
9. they can't all apply for welfare
Mon May 14, 2012, 02:42 PM
May 2012

only parents can apply for welfare. The unemployed and childless get no help.

 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
6. some of us are lucky and have friends who can
Mon May 14, 2012, 01:29 PM
May 2012

help us out with small loans and so on, I hate to think what people without any kind of support group are doing. Homelessness I guess.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
7. My son-in-law is still getting unemployment but he is over 50 and may never work again. One of the
Mon May 14, 2012, 01:39 PM
May 2012

things he is doing is setting up a small farm in order to provide something for the family. I talked to him about the small farmer of yesterday. Your income from a small farm then included every single thing that you provided for your own family as well as anything you could sell. Too often today the provisions for your own family are not considered as part of your contribution to the support of your family - instead it is called a hobby. For tax purposes that is good but it does not help you see that you are actually doing for your family.

In the 60s many people took a good look at what it cost them to work (uniforms, transportation, etc.) and realized that sometimes they could actually do just as well doing things from home like small farming but the idea did not catch on because you were not getting rich. There were other reasons it did not work though.

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
8. I was cut off with very little advance notice from California's EDD and only
Mon May 14, 2012, 01:47 PM
May 2012

had advance warning thanks to my brothers and sisters at DU and DailyKos.

As for what I shall do, re-intensify my efforts to find a job, settle for a sub-standard position for a job and employer I despise, re-double my involvement with Occupy Los Angeles, and continue my education as a revolutionary. I will try like hell not to tap my retirement accounts prematurely but may have no other choice.

As far as I am concerned, I have been all but abandoned by my government (local, state and federal). This is just one manifestation of that abandonment.

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