83,100 losing jobless benefits (in LA-LB area)

[question everything]

http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21478~2054334,00.html#

WASHINGTON -- More than 83,000 out-of-work residents in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area will lose their unemployment benefits by June without congressional action, according to a new report Wednesday by the region's House Democrats.

Lawmakers used the data to blast Republican leaders for not reauthorizing a program that provides at least 13 more weeks of unemployment checks to jobless workers whose 26 weeks of state benefits are expiring.

Already about 46,700 workers in the area have exhausted their benefits, and 83,100 are expected to lose them in the first six months of this year, the report says.

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[orwell]

1. Don't Worry

Don't worry. With all the "job creation", they'll find work in no time.

Hey, maybe they can all be waiters at the upcomming Bush/Cheney inauguration gala. Or they could become contractors in Iraq. Or they could be RW shills on Cable TV. Or they could hand out Bush/Cheney buttons outside screenings of the Passion.

There's work out there. I know of a job opening in Washington in about 7 months...

O