Keith, Chicago IL
I had 10 years' experience as a copy editor when the publishing industry began to implode. In 2...
I Became a Teacher Because They Said There Was a Shortage
I had 10 years' experience as a copy editor when the publishing industry began to implode. In 2002, I was laid off along with 100 other editorial employees from an online city guide and used up my nine months of unemployment insurance looking for work in my field which never materialized. Because everyone was saying there was a shortage of teachers...
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Working people need help
Unemployment insurance needs to be renewed for working people because the the economy has not changed much since 2008 when the recession started. This money will help famalies keep afloat in the hard times we are facing. Allowing them to pay for necessities until the economy improves. Thank you!
Bill O'Brien
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William, Beaverton OR
Unemployment insurance needs to be renewed for working people because the the economy has not c...
Social Worker
I have a [relative] with a disability and the only camp for her was cut due to the budget. I live in a city that is on the list for one of the poorest city. People in this city ignore you and do nothing. I don't understand how the politicians keep getting paid when they are paid by taxes and nothing is getting done to solve the problems in this cou...
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Renee , Macon GA
I have a [relative] with a disability and the only camp for her was cut due to the budget. I li...
Discontinuing unemployment benefits is more costly than extending them.
As a clinical social worker by profession, I have been in touch with many American workers, blue collar and white collar workers, who have been laid off from their jobs after years of steady employment because of outsourcing. These people want to get a job, but there are no jobs available, so many become deeply depressed. Without unemployment ben...
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Robert, Syosset NY
As a clinical social worker by profession, I have been in touch with many American workers, blu...
PEOPLE NEED YOUR HELP NOW
I am now retired, but I have been unemployed in the past, and I know how terrible it feels to worry about everyday bills, to pray that nothing breaks down because you don't have the money to fix it, and to struggle to feed your family. I would shop for food and carry a calculator, because I couldn't exceed my budget, and then feel humiliated when ...
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Alice, Westerville OH
I am now retired, but I have been unemployed in the past, and I know how terrible it feels to w...
Retired Senior
Any country in which 14% of the population cannot afford to feed themselves is a failure. And that us! Yup, 14% of the population is now on food stamps. I applied myself last week.
Aren't you proud? Thanks so much for your moronic posturing and name-calling while Rome burns.
DO YOUR FRIGGIN' JOBS, or YOU TOO will in the unemployment line,...
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Toni, Wasco CA
Any country in which 14% of the population cannot afford to feed themselves is a failure. And ...
Jobs & Unemployment Benefits
I am writing to say what a profound negative impact joblessness has on a family. My son in law is in the building trades industry. Due to lack of activity he has been laid off for the last two years almost as much as he has worked. This has placed much stress on their young family and marriage. In fact the stress has gotten to the point where m...
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Marge, Waterloo IL
I am writing to say what a profound negative impact joblessness has on a family. My son in law...
Drama Coach At-Large
With the help of his son, our friend, Fred Copas, was able to regain his home after it was foreclosed. However, due to budget cuts, he lost his job working road crew for a Wisconsin county. The department could no longer pay a certain number of workers, and since Fred made the most money, he lost his job. He's now looking for work when there is non...
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Barbra, Cazenovia WI
With the help of his son, our friend, Fred Copas, was able to regain his home after it was fore...
STAY IN SESSION - GET IT DONE
Congress - No Vacation - Extend Benefits!!!!
I am not eligible for unemployment benefits even though I have been out of work for a year and a half now. I mistakenly accepted a company buyout from a very large telecom company in order to avoid being laid off. I was sold a bill of goods. I truly felt there would be additional options for me. N...
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Stefan, Delran NJ
Congress - No Vacation - Extend Benefits!!!!
I am not eligible for unemployment benefits eve...
Health care administration, Intellectual Property Legal Assistant, Office Manager
I am 54 years old, I completed a Bachelors Degree in Organizational Development in 2005 (graduated Magna cum Laude). I had a solid work history. I have been a full time worker with a very good work ethic, attendance record, positive work reviews, and promotions.
In March of 2009, I was let go from my job as a compliance paralegal. I was makin...
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Kathleen, Downingtown PA
I am 54 years old, I completed a Bachelors Degree in Organizational Development in 2005 (gradua...
No job yet...still looking.
This is our story. My wife was laid off from her job after having heart surgery and after her long term disability insurance ran out. She was willing to go back to work, but could was having to go to therapy and could not work the full 40 hours. So she was laid off from her $12/hr job that she was very good at. Her insurance was cut at the time...
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Jim, Pasadena TX
This is our story. My wife was laid off from her job after having heart surgery and after her ...
Mrs.
I am a 61 year old woman who has been unemployed since 2008. My unemployment insurance has run out. While collecting it, I looked for work five days a week, filling out job applications, interviewing, taking civil service tests. I took, and continue to take, classes to improve or add to my skills, paying for these out of my unemployment or now f...
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Ellen, Berkeley CA
I am a 61 year old woman who has been unemployed since 2008. My unemployment insurance has run...
12.6 million
workers are officially unemployed as of November 2011.
School Social Worker/Drug Prevention Counselor
I lost a half-time job working in an inner city middle school. There is a 40% concentrated poverty in the city. Needles to say that our services were needed. In order to be able to serve more children and families, I brought in 5-6 social work and mental health counselor interns, whom I supervised. Now that my position is lost so are the services o...
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Lieve, Rochester NY
I lost a half-time job working in an inner city middle school. There is a 40% concentrated pove...
Automotive Service Manager
Last year was pretty tough for me. After years of watching the industry I had been employed in 'crash and burn'; I finally lost my house, my marriage, my family, and my job. I did land in a 'safe haven'(North Carolina), but without 'unemployment' benefits, I would have starved, and turned...where? 'Welfare'? Street crime? who knows. America has, s...
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Robert D, Spindale NC
Last year was pretty tough for me. After years of watching the industry I had been employed in...
at a loss
I am currently receiving unemployment and without it I would lose my home. I live in a relatively small town where the job market is not the best. I have worked since I was 14 and this is the first time in 30 years I have been unemployed and have ever used unemployment. If I did not receive unemployment at this time I would lose my home, car and ha...
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paula, Temple TX
I am currently receiving unemployment and without it I would lose my home. I live in a relative...
Unemployed Worker
I have been unemployed now for better than 4 years. My unemployment checks ended a year and a half ago. Since then I have been surviving on aid from family, something they cannot sustain indefinitely for obvious reasons. My younger brother was unemployed for 3 1/2 years and had also exhausted his benefits before finally landing a job. My house ...
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Bill, Jenison MI
I have been unemployed now for better than 4 years. My unemployment checks ended a year and a ...
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Because my back was nearly worn out from years in health care work, and since I knew the housing bubble was about to burst, I sold my place in Arizona 6 years ago and moved to the cheapest area I could find to live - northeast Missouri. For almost 3 years until I could take early retirement, I "lived" on my savings in a classic fixer upper which I...
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Frances, Memphis MO
Because my back was nearly worn out from years in health care work, and since I knew the housin...
We don't want to die
When the GM Truck plant closed it's doors due to the bankruptcy they left the IUE-CWA with little benefits. They were a BIG employer in the Dayton area. My sister-in-law has MS and is still trying to work because the health ins. we were left with was awful. My brother-in-law did not take the buy out because he wanted to make sure Marsha had insuran...
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Barbara, Dayton OH
When the GM Truck plant closed it's doors due to the bankruptcy they left the IUE-CWA with litt...
