Hard Enough to Live With Unemployment Insurance, Let Alone ...

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by Tula Connell, Dec 16, 2011

Terry Miale, a communications systems engineer, lost nearly everything when she lost her job.

My whole life is gone. My retirement is gone. My house is gone. For a period of time, I lost my mental health because I went into a deep depression.

Even though she worked 30 years in her field, it took Miale four years to get?re-employed.?So Miale can?t understand why Republican leaders in?Congress just won?t extend unemployment insurance (UI) to long-term unemployed workers who can?t find jobs in an economy in which there are more than four workers for every one job.

When I needed? unemployment benefits, they were there. I really?think that it isn?t fair to pull a lifeline out from under people that are just now having to collect unemployment benefits. It?s hard enough to live on unemployment benefits, let alone live with none.

Unless UI is extended this month, 2 million jobless people will lose their lifeline.?Those in Congress blocking the UI extension should be made to feel what it?s like to be unemployed.

Sign a petition to Congress demanding it act now to extend the emergency UI benefits program.

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Source: http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/12/16/hard-enough-to-live-with-unemployment-insurance-let-alone-none/

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