The $856 billion tax deal passed by Congress in a lame duck session and signed into law by President Obama Friday offers the nation’s unemployed, including those in Delaware, some good news - a 13 month extension of unemployment benefits. Without that extension, an additional 7 million long term unemployed Americans might have lost their benefits between now and next November. But with the nation’s unemployment rate at 9.8 percent and Delaware’s at 8.4 percent, the struggle to find work will continue for thousands through the holiday season and into 2011. DFM News’ Patrick Mairs provides a look at what that effort to find a job looks like in the First State.
Little holiday cheer for Delaware’s unemployed
Produced and edited by Patrick Mairs
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