New York's Jobless 99er's Channel Anger in Wall Street Protest

[Joanne98]

The 99ers took a stand on Wall Street Thursday.

A throng of desperate job-hunters -- who've been out of work so long their unemployment benefits ran out -- staged a protest rally on the steps of Federal Hall.

"Are you going to tell us, President Obama and Congress, that our lives are not worth saving?" asked 99er Connie Kaplan.

She had to move in with her daughter in Astoria, Queens to survive and gets food from food banks.

The grassroots political group, which sprang up after jobless Americans started commiserating online, is demanding that unemployment benefits be extended to include them. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) co-sponsored a recently introduced bill that would create extensions in states with unemployment rates of 7.5% or higher.



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[Demeter]

1. This is a GOOD Development!

Truth will out.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

2. Unfortunately I think this is what it's going to take...

..and a whole LOT of it. So they can't ignore it anymore.

[Doctor_J]

3. Why can't they ignore it?

What's different this time?

:shrug:

[Recursion]

6. It's a common misconception on DU that people out there don't know what's going on

Because a lot of people don't like to admit that in fact people do know and just don't care.

[Jefferson23]

4. Wall Street poison, the legacy of ruin for the majority. n/t

[marmar]

5. Change the "is" to "has" he's got it.....

nt