'99ers' dread future without jobless benefits
Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 20:10
in Mathematics & Economics
They've exhausted 99 weeks of unemployment checks. Thousands are banding together to lobby Congress for another extension. Karl Schafer says he has tried for hundreds of jobs since he was laid off from a truck factory more than two years ago. Still waiting to get hired, the 52-year-old Ohio man has suffered the indignity of applying for food stamps and asking his elderly...