NY Times: States cutting weeks of aid to the jobless [View all]

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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?”