Juli, Newmanstown PA
I just lost my job on Friday. Without unemployment, I have no way to feed my two sons, to pay ...
No way to stay afloat
I just lost my job on Friday. Without unemployment, I have no way to feed my two sons, to pay our rent, to try and find another job. Our country has tough choices to make, but this should be easy. Our own country and people should be the top priority of our government so let's stop bleeding trillions of dollars in pointless, endless wars in the ...
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concerned for country
We cannot put the people who are barely surviving into the cold. keep the unemployment benefit going to the families. they need it for food, to keep warm, for the kids.
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MIKE, albuquerque NM
We cannot put the people who are barely surviving into the cold. keep the unemployment benefit ...
Congress, get your heads on straight and look around you.
This unemployment is effecting nearly every family in America today. I don't want to point fingers, that isn't the important factor here, job creation is. We have some very bright non-political people here in this country-now. Why not utilize them? And, I agree with others, in this thought:
Fire the representatives that will not drop their special...
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Catherine, Daytona Beach FL
This unemployment is effecting nearly every family in America today. I don't want to point fing...
my opinion of what could happen.
Without continued unemployment compensation, there is always a great threat of increasing poverty and a severe economic depression like the stock market crash of 1929. More people could become homeless, causing total anarchy.
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Martin, Brooklyn NY
Without continued unemployment compensation, there is always a great threat of increasing pover...
Dr.
My [relative]was let go from a company that was foundering on Sept. 10, 2001. He's a highly educated (ABD in English and film) and technically savvy person (technical writer). He's been unable to find another full-time job, partly because he was 52 at the time he was let go, and time marches on, while ageism isn't going anywhere. But at least I hav...
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Anca, Grosse Pointe MI
My [relative]was let go from a company that was foundering on Sept. 10, 2001. He's a highly edu...
State Of United States of Who "The Rich"?
I personally haven't been employed since 2001 so unemployment compensation hasn't been an issue for me for years, however If anyone in government can't see the devastation the country is already suffering due to so many job losses and how the end of unemployment compensation be have even foe dire affects My only conclusions is that this is a contro...
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Rebecca, Detroit MI
I personally haven't been employed since 2001 so unemployment compensation hasn't been an issue...
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I've worked since I was 12 -- as a neighborhood babysitter -- and working has always been important to me. It has connected with me the world, made me feel and be truly productive, and given me the means to pay the bills.
But now, at age 54, I am evidently too old to work, at least in the eyes of conventional employers. Hiring managers deduce (...
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Michele , Alameda CA
I've worked since I was 12 -- as a neighborhood babysitter -- and working has always been impor...
PASS HR 589 and Extend Unemployment Benefits NOW
I am a 99er. A displaced employee through no fault of my own who has exhausted unemployment benefits, and who receives no assistance whatsoever from her government despite the fact that I worked for over 25 years never collecting a dime of unemployment, but paying in all that time. I have been unable to locate a new position despite many many app...
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Lori, Agoura Hills CA
I am a 99er. A displaced employee through no fault of my own who has exhausted unemployment be...
Unemployed after twenty years
I have worked all my life, except for two two years periods where I attended school and potty trained my kids. After twenty years of working and never collecting unemployment, I developed a hernia and was unable to continue in my present job. I have no medical insurance, and my unemployment disqualifies me from food stamps. Without my unemployment ...
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Rose, Erial NJ
I have worked all my life, except for two two years periods where I attended school and potty t...
LIUNA Laborer
I had the misfortune of joining the ranks of the unemployed November 18th of this year. Not so Happy Holidays for me and mine. But I do have a twenty week safety net. I don't see a chance for me to return to work anytime soon. I am a tradesman in the construction field. I benefited by the Obama stimulus plan by securing fourteen months work on...
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Chet, Rockford IL
I had the misfortune of joining the ranks of the unemployed November 18th of this year. Not so...
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...
I Am The 99%
I have been unemployed since February, when the company I worked for (3yrs) closed 2 distribution centers and many of their stores. I am very grateful for my unemployment benefits, in spite of the fact that they take a large chunk of it to pay child support. Funny how these things work against you and it doesn't matter how hard you try, cause your ...
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Jaclyn , South Bend IN
I have been unemployed since February, when the company I worked for (3yrs) closed 2 distributi...
25 million
people across America are unemployed, underemployed or have stopped looking for work.
Disabled Mother Grieves Over Inability to Help Son & His Family
My son has been out of work for over a year now. He is educated and is a highly skilled auto body mechanic who used to make a living that afforded him and his family to live a comfortable middle class lifestyle. These days he's living upstairs from his brother in a 1 bedroom apartment and is unable to engage in outside the home family activities....
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Jill, Wauwatosa WI
My son has been out of work for over a year now. He is educated and is a highly skilled auto b...
What it's like to be unemployed
I am 59 & have been employed since June of 2010. I had to move out of my apartment in July 2011 because I was unable to pay the rent increase. Now it's hard to manage to pay all of my bills or even put food on the table. If I didn't have my unemployment for now I don't know where I would be. It's hard enough that I had to move in with some fami...
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Sharon, Butler PA
I am 59 & have been employed since June of 2010. I had to move out of my apartment in July 201...
I am an American
I got a suggestion for Congress. Tell them to do with out a pay check for a year or 2 years and see how they like it. I believe if you do not do work you do not get paid.
I lost my good paying job at auto parts factory in 2009. Now I work for less than half the money on food stamps and have NO insurance. I am 53 years old and I am raising my 2 gr...
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Angela, Connersville IN
I got a suggestion for Congress. Tell them to do with out a pay check for a year or 2 years and...
Killing Hard Working Americans!
We must come together to get emergency unemployment benefits extended for the 6 million Americans who need it to help bridge the gap in 2012. I know it has affected my family, as my relatives] has lost their job because of shut downs. We have friends and relatives that have lost their jobs. I know of people who may loose or have lost their homes b...
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Ava, Martinsville VA
We must come together to get emergency unemployment benefits extended for the 6 million Americ...
Just Plain Mean
As far as I can tell, this is the worst economic crisis we've been in since I was born in 1940.
To deny extended unemployment benefits is just plain cruel to the people who had nothing to do with starting this mess.
Now is the time to tax the so-called job creators for all the money they took and all the jobs they destroyed.
Extending ...
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Judith, New York NY
As far as I can tell, this is the worst economic crisis we've been in since I was born in 1940....
Still Unemployed & Worried
This is the second time in my life that I've been unemployed and I'm only 34.
I was laid off in January of this year from a major Internet company. I was positive that with my skills I would be able to find employment within 6 months. It's now December and I've come to the realization that it will be almost a year since being laid off. I got a ...
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Kenny, Los Angeles CA
This is the second time in my life that I've been unemployed and I'm only 34.
I was laid of...
