400 NYers a day see benefits expire --There's one gone every 80 seconds

Source: NY Post

That is, every day, 400 unemployed New York City residents exhaust their unemployment benefits, a study of state unemployment statistics by The Post reveals.

They're among the 3.7 million out-of-work Americans who'll be cut off from their average $400-a-week lifeline by the end of July.

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One New Yorker with just a few months left before her $430 weekly checks stop says the stress takes a huge toll.

"It's an emotional roller-coaster. . .not sleeping, a constant feeling of worthlessness," said Sharon Angela Richie, 47, a former executive assistant at Cabrini Medical Center who lost her job more than a year ago when the hospital went bankrupt.

"I feel as if someday I'll be homeless living in a box," said Richie, who's single and living with family members in Yonkers.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jobless_broke_VsgYY8FvVDcM3HUup9t6HI?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=

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Sorry about the NYPost link but thought the angle they brought to the unemployment story was noteworthy. One person in NY every eighty seconds. :wow: So while our congresscritters go away for their holiday:
Per the DOL:

The Labor Department has estimated that roughly 1.351 million stopped receiving unemployment benefits under the EUC and EB by the end of June and 3.22 million would drop out of the programs by the end of July 2010

and their lives is a critical issue in itself, consider how much money will NOT be going back into the economy.

Since we citizens are now cast as consumers and it is clear the economy functions on out spending, then more unemployed people without those benefits will have a negative impact that is not just personally devastating.

What does it take to blow the lid off the premium bullshit wrapped around this whole economic debacle? Oh, wait a minute ... that means we have to focus on the stellar amounts of "money" flowing into the hands of a few while the population falls for a pick-and-choose menu of distracting reasons and issues.

Well -- I think he just said 7 days a week . . . don't think he mentioned hours!

This is all heinous beyond belief.

Jk, this is a serious issue, and hopefully enough ppl in Congress will realize how important this is.