{"id":302245,"date":"2011-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/congress-needs-to-extend-unemployment-benefits\/"},"modified":"2011-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T08:00:00","slug":"congress-needs-to-extend-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/congress-needs-to-extend-unemployment-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress needs to extend unemployment benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was unemployed, I remember the daily struggle: endless days sifting through Internet job listings, revising my resume dozens of times a week to fit each opening, countless trips to the dry cleaner to be sure my suit was clean for an interview, and then lining up transportation to get to those interviews.\u00a0 The only way I was able to survive\u2014 Internet bills so I could job hunt, printing my resume, paying for dry cleaning, bus fare, let alone rent and putting food on the table \u2014 was thanks to the $270 a week in unemployment benefits I received.\u00a0 \u00a0Like everyone else, I paid into unemployment during the years that I worked, knowing that safety net would be there if and when I needed it.\u00a0I am lucky to be working now, but there are millions of people in our country that are still struggling and need that vital lifeline.\u00a0 It is time for Congress to remember who they work for, and who votes for them, and extend these benefits before the end of the year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was unemployed, I remember the daily struggle: endless days sifting through Internet job listings, revising my resume dozens of times a week to fit each opening, countless trips to the dry cleaner to be sure my suit was clean for an interview, and then lining up transportation to get to those interviews.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Congress needs to extend unemployment benefits","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}