http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/nyregion/19benefits.html
The New York Times
April 19, 2009
For New Yorks Newly Jobless, $430 Doesn't Go Far
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Lose your job in Boston, Pittsburgh, Seattle or Trenton and you could
collect $544 or more per week in unemployment benefits. But get laid
off in New York City, as almost 200,000 workers have in the past year,
and the most you can collect is $430 a week.
Despite its high cost of living, New York pays less to its unemployed
than about two dozen other states, including all of its neighbors. New
York's benefits have not been raised by lawmakers in Albany in more
than a decade, making it particularly difficult for jobless residents
of the metropolitan area to pay for food, rent and health insurance.
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