While UK is working to end their welfare state…
We have a system where people too often are rewarded for doing the wrong thing, and those who strive to do the best by their families are penalised. It is a system so out of control that it houses unemployed people in some of the most expensive accommodation in the land, while those who work hard on low incomes are forced to commute long distances because they can’t afford properties near work.
The US is working to expand ours…
The new bill that would provide additional unemployment benefits to 99ers — those who have exhausted all available benefits — now has 60 cosponsors, an unemployment advocate announced today.
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Another participant at the press conference was Gerry DePietro, a 99er who has become an advocate for the unemployed. Commenting on her new-found activism, she said, “I realized there were people out there so much worse off than me and since I still had Internet access, I was going to ‘climb on board’ as they say.”