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. […]

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with Moms Rising. I am an RN who specializes in utilization review. I had worked for the same company since 1999. Unfortunately, as the dawn of the economic crisis broke, that company was swallowed up by another company, and then that was sold to another. After years of losing […]