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Protecting Unemployment Benefits

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Welcome to the seventh #HERvotes blog carnival on the need to protect women and employment during these tough economic times, with a focus on the importance of extending Unemployment Insurance (UI) before the December 31st deadline. It is critical that Congress acts before the end of this calendar year […]

By Hannah Gordon

Looking for Jobs that Don’t Exist Is Hard Work

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with the National Women’s Law Center. The deadline to extend federal unemployment benefits (UI) is rapidly approaching, but it is still not clear when Congress will get around to addressing this extremely critical issue. Meanwhile, some Members of Congress have indicated that they would vote against a bill […]

By Guest Blogger

Unemployment, Congress, and People Like Me

Published: December 8, 2011

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. […]

By Guest Blogger

Good Education. Good Experience. Still Unemployed.

Published: December 8, 2011

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 […]

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