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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Millions of unemployed Americans are waiting for Congress to do something other than trade barbs over their job creation plans.
If lawmakers don't act soon, the jobless see their unemployment checks start to disappear come January.
More than 6 million Americans are set to lose federal unemployment benefits in 2012, with 1.8 million running out in January alone, according to new figures from the National Employment Law Project.
President Obama's $447 billion American Jobs Act would extend the deadline to file for federal unemployment benefits for another year. Though the Senate is expected to take up the controversial jobs bill on Tuesday, it's unlikely to get very far.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/11/news/economy/unemployment_benefits/index.htm
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How do they expect families to live if they have no income at all? I mean really. They need to get that resolved as a priority fast.
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Here's hoping commonsense will prevail and they will hurry up and do this. What a mess... :( As if being unemployed isn't stressful enough!
That's the last thing in the world we need to happen with so much unrest as it is. Our politicians created that tough economy and can't turn their backs on the unemployed that are the fallout from that.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
- Samuel Johnson