Chichot historii
/ 83.5.242.* / 2009-04-05 19:54
The federal government cannot give financial assistance to each person who losses a job for a years after they are terminated. It would cost too much. So, the current limit is 59 weeks. What happens then?
According to The New York Post, “Precise figures are hard to determine, but Wayne Vroman, an economist at the Urban Institute, estimates that up to 700,000 people could exhaust their extended benefits by the second half of this year.”
So, what becomes of those people? Where does the money come from to pay for housing, transportation, and food? The answer, in most cases, is nowhere.
If the government does not extent assistance beyond 59 weeks, at the cost to taxpayers, there could be a lot of Americans living below the poverty line, and many will not have the money to keep a roof over their heads.