Two million jobless set to lose unemployment benefits, By Tami Luhby, November 10, 2012, CNNMoney: “More than 2 million jobless Americans will lose their federal unemployment insurance during the holidays if Congress doesn’t extend the deadline to file for extended benefits. And another 1 million who exhaust their state benefits will not be able to sign up for the federal program in the first quarter of 2013, according to the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group. Now that the presidential election is over, policymakers and advocates are turning their attention to the economic issues plaguing the country, including the fiscal cliff…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty