Last unemployment check is in the mail

[Dulcinea]

Although the deadline to file for extended unemployment insurance is officially Nov. 30, many jobless have already filed their last claim for benefits. And since lawmakers aren't likely to extend the deadline anytime soon, many more unemployed Americans will run out of their extended federal benefits in coming weeks. About 2 million people are expected to stop receiving checks in December.

President Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to extend unemployment benefits, lawmakers are still fighting over the expense. Sen. Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, introduced a bill Monday night that would extend benefits through next year at a cost of $56.4 billion. But Republicans are likely to balk at the price tag.

While they debate, state unemployment agencies are very concerned about the impending end to these extended jobless payments, which they say people depend on to cover their rent and buy food.


http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/30/news/economy/unemployment_benefits/index.htm

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. What the hell is wrong with Congress? People are starving!

[hayu_lol]

2. I have no idea what this will do to the millions...

who have few or no other resources. What sort of desperate acts will we be seeing in the next few months as parents attempt to care for their children?

Once the machinery stops, it will take more to restart it than just pushing a button.

One thing that puzzles me...there have to be Repugnants out there who are also going to be punished by this cut in benefits.

Once these funds are no longer being spent in their local communities, the real face of this depression will be seen for the first time as all small businesses will be forced to close(small markets and the like).

This is just plain wrong.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. and just in time for christmas...

a time in which our wealthy elected "representatives" will go back to their luxurious homes and laugh (at us) with their families. Good tidings to all, and to all those without- "Fuck You".

[awoke_in_2003]

4. why do I feel...

that this is the 80's revisited? Maybe because it is.

[inna]

6. this is unprecedented, actually. nt

[Loki]

7. Just like the Reagan years

homeless families living in cars, people sleeping in the hospital waiting room on the floors, double digit inflation and unemployment. America just can't seem to get enough of Republican style humanism. It will honestly take people in the streets (and I don't mean living on them) again before this changes. In front of every Senator and Congressman's office who voted for this abomination legitimizing the "cleansing" of people without any representation. Now teapartiers, the little bluebird of happiness that you so blindly believed and elected, has turned into a great big giant, greedy vulture and he's coming to take a huge shit on top of your house,

[renate]

5. well, the important thing is that Republicans got their way

That's much more helpful to the homeless and hungry than shelter, heat, or food.

[Vinca]

8. This is beyond belief horrible. First they outsource the jobs,

then tell Americans to retrain for new jobs, then they outsource those jobs, then they tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and find a job that isn't there. It's a joke to Washington. A political football apparently meant to garner the votes of the greedy and self-centered along with the giant campaign coffer checks from corporations. They don't view us as living, breathing beings. They don't care if families live on the streets or kids go hungry or the heat is turned off. I'm beyond disgusted with this country.

[okieinpain]

9. well to be honest I'm not feeling too bad about this. I'm thinking

a lot of them voted repug during the mid-terms. I know they did in oklahoma so you reap what you sow.