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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.

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Report Says 230,000 Unemployed Losing Benefits Over Weekend [View all] Purveyor May 2012 OP

Stupid question: How do they live? How are they surviving? jwirr May 2012 #1

Moving in with parents, food stamps, marginal cash jobs. former9thward May 2012 #3

Thank you. In other words foreclosures, poverty and desparation. jwirr May 2012 #5

They will all have to apply for welfare Auntie Bush May 2012 #4

they can't all apply for welfare magical thyme May 2012 #9

some of us are lucky and have friends who can quinnox May 2012 #6

I was cut off with very little advance notice from California's EDD and only coalition_unwilling May 2012 #8