The Numbers - Update

July 9, 2010 - - So far 3.8 million people have lost their federal extended benefits, and there will be another 200,000 every 2 weeks until we reach a total of 5.38 million. And then another 4.62 million who will eventually exhaust their normal state benefits of 26 weeks - so by the end of the year we will have 10 million people with NO income at all. This does not include any new claims from this day foreword.

...and this does not include the other 5 million unemployed who the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says didn't qualify or didn't apply for benefits at all. (I was wondering...who and where are these people? Maybe the spouses of those who worked lucrative jobs, or part-time teenagers still living at home? Homeless or suicide? Who knows?)

And this doesn't include the other 15 million that are "under-employed" (working one or more part-time low-paying jobs just to survive.)

TOTAL: 30 million from a workforce of 150 million = 20% unemployed or under-employed.

At the height of the Great Depression in 1933 there were 13 million unemployed with no income...but at least they could live in "Hoover-villes". Today, the homeless can't sleep on the street or live in a tent city without being cited by the police.

So where does our government expect us to go?

Other Articles I wrote about  the Congressional Denial of Unemployment Benefits to the Unemployed

Our Good Senators
http://acompanyofone.org/post-article-2010_our-good-senators.html 

Are the Unemployed being Buried Alive?
http://acompanyofone.org/post-article-2010_jobless-buried-alive.html 

Can The Terminator Save America?
http://acompanyofone.org/post-article-2010_arnold-schwarzenegger.html  

The Unemployment rate fell? The BIG Lie
http://acompanyofone.org/post-article-2010_unemployment-rate.html  

Stuart Varney "There are no jobs!"
http://acompanyofone.org/post-article-2010_varney.html  

Who Are the 99ers? Where did they come from? What to they want?
http://acompanyofone.org/the-99ers-get-slammed-again.html  

Casino Welfare
http://acompanyofone.org/post-article-2010_casino-welfare.html  

BP and Me
http://acompanyofone.org/its-all-about-the-oil.htm 

Now What Can I Do? Die? 
http://acompanyofone.org/now-what-can-i-do.htm 

Don't Blame the Good Senators!
http://acompanyofone.org/making-a-case-for-congress.html 

There Will be NO Tier Five!
http://acompanyofone.org/why-there-will-be-no-tier-five.htm 

The Division and Resentment Among the Unemployed
http://acompanyofone.org/divide-and-conquer.html 

This call might be recorded... 
http://acompanyofone.org/phone-calls-to-your-senator.htm 

To Be a Homeless Man
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog5.php/2010/05/09/to-be-a-homeless-man 

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