- Without deal, unemployment checks stop Dec. 29, By Paul Davidson, December 17, 2012, USA Today: “About 2.1 million Americans will lose their extended jobless benefits on Dec. 29, leaving many on the brink of poverty, if Washington doesn’t renew them as part of a deal on the package of tax increases and spending cuts known as the ‘fiscal cliff.’ An additional 930,000 people will run out of unemployment insurance in early 2013 when their 26 weeks, give or take, of state benefits end, according to the National Employment Law Project (NELP)…”
- North Carolina now facing its own jobless benefits cliff, By David Ranii, December 11, 2012, Charlotte Observer: “More than half of the people in North Carolina who receive unemployment benefits – an estimated 100,000 people – could lose those benefits at the end of this month. The extended benefits provided by the federal government – which kick in for most unemployed workers after their state-funded 26 weeks of unemployment are exhausted – will stop the week ending Dec. 29 unless Congress acts…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty