***Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits***

spanone

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Sat Nov-05-11 06:43 PM
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WASHINGTON � The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America's unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.

Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent � a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America's 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.

Congress is expected to decide by year's end whether to continue providing emergency unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks in the hardest-hit states. If the emergency benefits expire, the proportion of the unemployed receiving aid would fall further.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45175026/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/#

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Sat Nov-05-11 07:13 PM
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1. ALL PART OF THE REPUBLICAN PLAN TO DEFEAT OBAMA

no matter what it does to Americans!  I didn't want to believe
it, but I no longer question that more than ideology was
driving the obstruction.  IMO it's not just to obstruct, it's
a deliberate attempt to sabotage the economy to get Obama out.
 

Can you imagine how much pain will be among us by 2012?  And
how long can the Occupy movement give people an opportunity
for a voice in peaceful opposition before the most desparate
and most angry speak?  

Can the politicians and powers-that-be truly not understand
the risks they are running by maintaining their stedfast
course? 

Whether the Republicans regain the White House or not, that's
a hell of a gamble - - -

I can't believe we've come to this.  I weep for my country and
my countrymen.

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