Families & The Federal Budget

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

Most of us will never know what it feels like to see our unemployment insurance benefits run out. But that doesn’t mean we can’t feel for the people who are at the economic edge, just eking by because of that check for a few hundred dollars. Aimee Brittain, 32, is coming up on a year without a job...

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Eve Tahmincioglu

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

It's November and the holidays are fast approaching. But will out of work families be left out in the cold? On November 30, federal unemployment insurance is set to expire. Yet millions of families are relying on extended federal unemployment insurance to stay afloat financially. MomsRising members...

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Donna Norton

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was founded in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt and other liberal luminaries in order to protect the legacy of her husband, the recently-deceased President Franklin Roosevelt, a legacy that included unemployment insurance (UI). That legacy was under attack by a...

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Michael J. Wilson

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

I was laid off from my job about three months ago. Unemployment today is unlike anything I have experienced in my lifetime. First of all, it was completely unexpected. Another major adjustment was to get used to a check of $494 biweekly and $25 worth of food stamps per month. Unfortunately, since I...

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T R

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

by Jasmine Tucker The unemployment situation is dire, especially among those who have been jobless for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, the situation is not likely to get better any time soon—national unemployment in October was above nine percent for the 18th consecutive month and is...

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Thao Nguyen

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

The loss of my husband's job could not have come at a worst time for us. I work part-time at a supermarket, and the way the economy is my hours were further cut. The unemployment checks we received helped a great deal, and we were able to survive. But our nightmare began after the year was up, and...

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Elisanta Batista

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

This time of year, many are planning their Thanksgiving menu and visits with family over the holidays and New Year. But a huge number of Americans are facing a much colder holiday season. Unless Congress acts now, two million workers will find it difficult to even put food on the table once their...

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Elizabeth Lower-Basch

Families & The Federal Budget

November 16, 2010

As if it hasn’t already done enough, the Great Recession has effectively ruined the first Friday of every month. Why? This is the day each month that the U.S. Department of Labor releases the nation’s unemployment rate. And it probably doesn’t require much explanation that for the past two years,...

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Megan Curran

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

This Halloween, we asked MomsRising members to share their stories of the scary job market and the response was, indeed, frightening. We received over a hundred stories from all across the country sharing the trauma of not being able to find work during a time in which there's only one job opening...

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Donna Norton

Families & The Federal Budget

October 28, 2010

That bone chilling, pit of fear in your stomach feeling. Could it be Halloween? Or possibly, could it be the very scary job market? Currently more than one in six working age adults - or 26.8 million people - are either unemployed or underemployed. And it's tough to find a job when there’s only one...

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Donna Norton