Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with the National Women’s Law Center. $297.00 That was the size of my weekly unemployment insurance benefit from the District of Columbia. Two hundred ninety-seven dollars and zero cents. I signed up to start receiving UI benefits shortly after being laid off on Monday, November 15, 2010, appx. […]
Danielle Jackson is Online Outreach Associate at the National Women's Law Center.