ALJAZAM News December 28, 2013
Its been a particularly difficult holiday for millions of americans. Nearly 11 Million People are unemployed. 4 million have been unemployed for more than six months. As of today, nearly a third of those people are being cut off from a federal lifeline. 1. 3 million americans lost longterm Unemployment Benefits. On average, each person got a little more than a thousand dollars a month. The benefits began in 2008 at the height of the recession. Since then, the payouts have cost the federal government 225,000,000,000. Congress had renewed them regularly until this year. Rebecca dixon said the go...