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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Wed Jan 22, 2014, 07:35 AM Jan 2014

NY Times: States cutting weeks of aid to the jobless

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/business/states-cutting-weeks-of-aid-to-the-jobless.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140122&_r=0

RIEGELWOOD, N.C. — After losing her job as a security guard in June, Alnetta McKnight turned to food stamps and unemployment insurance to support herself and her 14-year-old son. But her jobless payments ran out after 20 weeks, and now they are living on close to nothing.

“I worked for 26 years; I lost my job through no fault of my own,” Ms. McKnight said, sitting in her darkened living room — she keeps the lights off to save money — in this small town about 20 miles from Wilmington, N.C. “This is what I get?”

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NY Times: States cutting weeks of aid to the jobless (Original Post) LiberalElite Jan 2014 OP

This has to be stopped shenmue Jan 2014 #1

The GOP is destroying it's owm future with people-hating policies like this. another_liberal Jan 2014 #2

shenmue

(38,610 posts)

1. This has to be stopped

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 07:37 AM

Jan 2014

We have to help people. We must raise wages and create jobs.

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)

2. The GOP is destroying it's owm future with people-hating policies like this.

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 08:29 AM

Jan 2014

I just pity the innocents who will have to suffer until they complete the job, and the Republican Party is only a memory.

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