Most Of The Unemployed No Longer Receive 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.

"There's going to be increased hardship," said Wayne Vroman, an economist at the Urban Institute.

The number of unemployed has been roughly stable this year. Yet the number receiving benefits has plunged 30 percent

DesperateInRI wrote:

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.

"There's going to be increased hardship," said Wayne Vroman, an economist at the Urban Institute.

The number of unemployed has been roughly stable this year. Yet the number receiving benefits has plunged 30 percent

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/05/unemployed-benefits-most-_n_1077640.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C110308

Injeun wrote:I support you carrying the torch for the unemployed. But contrary to your suggesting that the House is obstructing, it's my understanding that they have sent fifteen job creation bills to the Senate, which have all been shelved by the Senate majority leader who is not interested in debating the merits of any House endeavors. On the other hand the House and Senate have considered and openly debated Obamas jobs plan before rejecting it.

PS And yes it would be gladdening to see someone promoting extensions and/or something to address the millions of unemployed who've exhausted all benefits and have nowhere else to turn.

Injeun wrote:I support you carrying the torch for the unemployed. But contrary to your suggesting that the House is obstructing, it's my understanding that they have sent fifteen job creation bills to the Senate, which have all been shelved by the Senate majority leader who is not interested in debating the merits of any House endeavors. On the other hand the House and Senate have considered and openly debated Obamas jobs plan before rejecting it.

PS And yes it would be gladdening to see someone promoting extensions and/or something to address the millions of unemployed who've exhausted all benefits and have nowhere else to turn.

ranbrow123 wrote:

Injeun wrote:I support you carrying the torch for the unemployed. But contrary to your suggesting that the House is obstructing, it's my understanding that they have sent fifteen job creation bills to the Senate, which have all been shelved by the Senate majority leader who is not interested in debating the merits of any House endeavors. On the other hand the House and Senate have considered and openly debated Obamas jobs plan before rejecting it.

PS And yes it would be gladdening to see someone promoting extensions and/or something to address the millions of unemployed who've exhausted all benefits and have nowhere else to turn.

Source?

“Forgotten 15″ – 15 bills that include one that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating the waste from coal-fired power plants as a hazardous material. The list also includes measures to end a moratorium on offshore drilling imposed last year by Mr. Obama after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

DesperateInRI wrote:

“Forgotten 15″ – 15 bills that include one that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating the waste from coal-fired power plants as a hazardous material. The list also includes measures to end a moratorium on offshore drilling imposed last year by Mr. Obama after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Instead of taxing large corporations their fair share, we are going to line the pockets of the big oil companies some more, creating a danger to our environment and climate? Loosen EPA restrictions to cause even further damage to our planet and people to benefit the lobbyists who buy off these politicians? These don't sound like reasonable job creation bills to me. Oh yes, then there is of course fracking, which is thought to be the cause of two recent earthquakes, one in Virginia and one in Oklahoma. Coincidence that these quakes struck areas that quakes rarely hit and fracking nearby? No, I don't think so.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/USGS-10-aftershocks-following-5-6-quake-in-Okla-2254943.php

http://blogs.alternet.org/refugee/2011/08/23/did-fracking-cause-the-virginia-earthquake/

Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure is a much more reasonable job creation plan than ruining the world we live in so the rich don't have to pay up!

Injeun wrote:We need jobs, not stolen money.