How to Ways to Make Money During Unemployed - Temporary or Long Term

When you lose your job, you may have to put yourself on a financial diet. Just as losing weight is simple if you eat less (and exercise more), staying afloat financially is simple if you spend less. Is this process going to be easy? No, of course not. But it can be done with a little self-discipline, some creativity, and a lot of planning.

A report shows that there are still three times as many children living with parents who've been unemployed more than six months as there were in 2007, before the recession.

As part of PBS NewsHour's coverage of the long-term jobless, we gathered personal stories from Americans who have lost their emergency unemployment benefits since the turn of the new year. NewsHour received hundreds of submissions from people age 23 to 68, from Aurora, Colo., to New York City.

The government stops tracking jobless Americans after six months, though they face a future of sporadic, part-time work
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