1M to Lose Unemployment Benefits

Jo-Anne Hurlston can't find a job after nearly six months of searching, even with her master's degree and experience in education, human resources and the hospitality industry.

She's one of nearly 1 million unemployed workers across the country who will start losing jobless benefits three days after Christmas because Congress failed to grant an extension before leaving for the year.

"All the money that's being spent on homeland security and we're left stranded," said Hurlston, 47, a single mother with a 12- year-old daughter. ``If they want more money for homeland security, we have to be able to work to pay taxes.''
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I'm sure Congress had the time to put in all the pork that their corporate contributors wanted. I would think that the least Congress could to is buy tickets, for those running out of unemployement benefits, to a local stage production of Dicken's A Christmas Carol.