Federal Jobless Benefits Will Be Cut for More Than One Million
For 20 years, Ms. K. Webb, a 46-year-old single mother of two, was a dedicated office manager who enjoyed her work and excelled at it, but her employment came to an abrupt halt in October 2008, when she was laid off. Today, Ms. Webb is one of 15 million unemployed Americans still struggling to find work amid the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. What’s more, she was one of 2.5 million workers who had nowhere left to turn for support when her federal jobless benefits were prematurely cut off this summer due to Congressional gridlock.
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And what's going to happen when all these people are elected to Congress who view unemployment as "welfare" and the unemployed as "losers"? Happy freaking holidays.