After a disappointing abbreviated version of her interview aired on Sunday, 99er Dawn Rayner’s expanded ABC interview was released today.
Dawn (who can now be found on Twitter @DawnRayner) announced yesterday her surprise at “going viral” with the ABC Sunday Night segment on World News Tonight.
See below the expanded version of the great interview Dawn gave to ABC - below.
UPDATE of the Bud Meyers Story:
Today, the story which commanded the attention of Arianna Huffington and Ali Velshy last Friday and the Host of Radioornot Nicole Sandler this Monday finally hit the Huffington Post in a full feature article by Arthurb Delaney.
From the article:
Meyers wrote that he's out of money and facing eviction in less than a month. He's a "99er" -- a person who exhausted all available unemployment extensions, which in some states amount to 99 weeks of aid, without finding work. There's no official estimate of how many people have exhausted 99 weeks of benefits -- only about half the 50 states provide 99 weeks in the first place -- but the White House estimates that 4 million people will have exhausted all available benefits by the end of the year.
CNN's Ali Velshi said during a Friday broadcast that he saw what Meyers wrote via Twitter. "Bud, I think you're listening, so hang in there," Velshi said. "You're not forgotten by everyone. You're in our heart and thoughts."
Talk-radio veteran Nicole Sandler, who started a website for 99ers, invited Meyers to join her for apodcast on Sunday. She asked him if what he'd written was a suicide note.
"It's a note of desperation, a lack of options," he said. "I want to do everything I can to cling to life. I think life is the most important thing there is. There's that and nothingness. But I'm 55 and been out of work over two years -- I'm not physically fit enough to survive on the street."
FYI: The 99er Nation (UI Exhaustees) welcomes over 22,000 new members every week!
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