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发帖数: 1 | 1 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tina Morton recently faced a choice: Pay bills — or
buy a birthday gift for a child? Derrisa Green is falling further behind on
rent. Sylvia Soliz has had her electricity cut off.
Unemployment has forced aching decisions on millions of Americans and their
families in the face of a rampaging viral pandemic that has closed shops and
restaurants, paralyzed travel and left millions jobless for months. Now,
their predicaments stand to grow bleaker yet if Congress fails to extend two
unemployment programs that are set to expire the day after Christmas.
If no agreement is reached in negotiations taking place on Capitol Hill,
more than 9 million people will lose federal jobless aid that averages about
$320 a week and that typically serves as their only source of income.
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Green, 39, and her husband are among them. An end to their unemployment
benefits would force them to keep missing rent payments on their home in
Dyer, Indiana, near Chicago. The couple have eight children. Green’s
husband is a self-employed truck driver whose business disappeared when the
pandemic erupted in the spring. Only in October did he start to pick up
occasional work.
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He now receives about $235 a week in unemployment aid. Even so, “all of our
bills are late,” Green said. They’ve received several shutoff notices
from utilities before managing to pay just before service was to be cut off.
“That’s really scary,” Green said, “because what are we going to do when
we lose the unemployment money?”
The end of jobless aid is approaching at an especially perilous time. Job
growth slowed sharply in November, and the resurgence of viral cases appears
to be out of control across the country. | l*******2
发帖数: 2550 | 2 pay bills 和 buy birthday gift有啥好犹豫的， 当然是pay bills
我因为一直跟老美穷人有接触
其实他们都很娇气的，真的。
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【在 c******t 的大作中提到】
: INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tina Morton recently faced a choice: Pay bills — or
: buy a birthday gift for a child? Derrisa Green is falling further behind on
: rent. Sylvia Soliz has had her electricity cut off.
: Unemployment has forced aching decisions on millions of Americans and their
: families in the face of a rampaging viral pandemic that has closed shops and
: restaurants, paralyzed travel and left millions jobless for months. Now,
: their predicaments stand to grow bleaker yet if Congress fails to extend two
: unemployment programs that are set to expire the day after Christmas.
: If no agreement is reached in negotiations taking place on Capitol Hill,
: more than 9 million people will lose federal jobless aid that averages about
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【在 l*******2 的大作中提到】
: pay bills 和 buy birthday gift有啥好犹豫的， 当然是pay bills
: 我因为一直跟老美穷人有接触
: 其实他们都很娇气的，真的。
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