ALJAZAM News December 28, 2013
Long term Unemployment Benefits expire today. Their lifeline for 1. 3 million americans who are been out of work for months. Those people are now cut off. The government check they depend on a little more than a thousand dollars on average wont be showing up. The program started in 2008 at the height of the recession. Since then the payouts have cost the federal government 225 billion. Extending them into next year would add another 19 billion. Congress has yet to do that. Tony harris has more. 123,407 months ago they lost their jobs. Now theyre losing the money they get from the government to...