3 million lose jobless benefits

Fears grow as millions lose jobless benefits

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In the past when large amounts of people suddenly lost benefits it had many different effects on those people's lives and the lives of their families and children. However, in 48 of the states I believe that it is still true that families cannot collect AFDC or welfare payments if the father is present in the family. The only two exceptions to this I believe are New York and California.

Another likely effect of these 3 million going off of unemployment compensation will likely be a rise in thefts in all the places where these people live. Because, after all, if there is no hope normal people become desperate in ways they may have never been before if they have never seen this kind of a downturn before. So, in order to reduce crime in areas where there are a lot of people going off of unemployment insurance it is very important to get counseling for these people so they can be retrained in College through grants and loans, get benefits of some kind for their wives and children etc. Without more help during these most difficult of times since the Great Depression crime is likely to go up with people this desperate.