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Benefits

The U.S. Senate has approved legislation to extend unemployment benefits and expand a homebuyer tax credit. Ref. CNN

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So those of us who are working are going to still have to pay for all the people who are collecting benefits and helping people buy a house. Even thought it has been proven that the housing part has widespread abuse and fraud.

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Unemployment High

U.S. Unemployment rate hits 10.2 percent in October, the highest rate since April, 1983. Job losses total 190,000. Ref. CNN

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With unemployment over 10% I believe that is showing people that a recovery may not be happening like they are hoping.

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Unemployed U.S.-born workers seek day-labor jobs

Growing ranks of U.S. Citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants. The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says Abel Valenzuela Jr., a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Los Angeles. Ref. Source 4

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Severe unemployment worsens in cities:

The number of U.S. Metropolitan areas with jobless rates above 15% increased in November, according to government figures released Tuesday, despite the biggest one-month drop in the national rate in more than three years. Ref. Source 9

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Unemployment At 10%

85,000 Jobs Lost in December; Unemployment Rate Remains at 10% [8:32 a.m. ET] Ref. ABC News

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Fox News is saying that thousands of unemployed citizens in the US are becoming so despondent about their efforts in finding a job that they just do not look anymore. It makes me wonder if it is because they cannot find a job or because they cannot find the job with benefits that they want.