Longterm Unemployment Benefits ran out. A live line for life line for 1. 3 million people. They are cut off. They wont be getting what they used to go a little over 1,000. It start at the height of the recession. Since then it cost 225 billion since 2008. The u. S. Economy is adding jobs, but is well short of a total before the bottom fell out of the Labour Market in 2007. The hardest hit are the longterm unemployment, 4. 9 million will exhaust emergency benefits during 2014, unless Congress Acts to renew the program. People like 56yearold norbert franzak are being cut off now. Im not going be able to pay for utilities. In fact, after this check i get this week from unemployment, i have to pay the mortgage payment on 1 january, ill have less than 200 in the bank. Before congress adjourned for the year president obama appealed for the benefits to be restored. For many looking for work Unemployment Insurance is a life line that can make the difference between temporary hardship and lasti
Any such plans that might be in the preliminary stage. Theres an important election suggesting the nsa is a very dramatic role in the drone campaign. I wonder if you can talk about that but also more broadly, keith alexander, was this prompted by the Edward Snowden scandal in terms of the terms of the presidency ended . The answer is no pity if we can confirm several weeks ago general alexander confirmed to the president in the spring of 2014. When he was extended for the third time as the director of the nsa for the fiber command in march of 2013, general alexander indicated his interest in retiring next spring. And having served as the director since 2005 and commander of u. S. Cyber command since 2010, general alexander served in extraordinary and let these agencies through critical periods of clintons transition. The president looks forward to continuing to work with general alexander until his term as complete and he thinks him and the men of the nsa for the patriotism and dedicat
A probe into spent the last craft an island that killed one to ninety four points and driver fatigue the ons added aging youre watching cctv neuroscience from among the fallout continues in china and elsewhere over the bithat of japese Prime Minister shinzo abbe to the controversial gas journey trying on thursday the shrine honors japans war dead including fourteen World War Two criminals tiny state councilor and former foreign minister again d hahas d now most of it that it was strong words. It is so gentle and a few times japanese Prime Minister shinzo abes visit to the Yasukuni Shrine trampled the feelings of the people victimized by japans military aggression is a challenge to all the people the world who love peace its awful challenge to postwar order and the victory of anti fascism war undoubtedly of its wrongdoings are and should be reprimanded by the Chinese People and the International Community. Points out that the ethics of me trying issue boils down to whether the japanese
Country at the un in new york south korean President Park in eight is to chair a new committee to explore the potential for a re union with the dprk. C company or ended when baking with this thirty minute update on cctv news. And its free one week since flies in makes for a seven zero and disappeared off the ride out carrying two hundred and thirty nine people. And if anything terrible questions now than there are houses. Its been a week of conflicting reports the room is and sometimes confused information in the meantime search and rescue teams from several countries continue to haunt the signs of daybreak. In an aba whitening area malaysias acting transport minister has denied media reports that the plane transmitted engines a time for a number of cars up to its final radio contact the acting minister has also dismissed chinese satellite images of daybreak in the South China Sea saying theyre not connected to the missing flights. And in the latest developments the us says its plannin
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