If Congress fails to pass an extension of unemployment benefits, Ricky Macoy of Quinlan, Texas plans to take it out on the Republican Party by camping...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
Mary McCurnin and Ron Bednar's divorce papers have arrived in the mail. The Rancho Cordova, Calif. couple wasn't having marital trouble -- they still ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
A former Bank of America employee has joined the fledgling "debtors' revolt" movement. "I was an assistant branch manager for Bank of America for two...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business
Freddie Effinger started feeling what he called a "bizarre pain" in his upper thigh during the summer of 2007, just before his third year at the Unive...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
Linda Amick worked for a big telecom firm for 24 years, climbing the ranks from lowly systems analyst making $14,000 a year to senior management. "It...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
After a breast cancer diagnosis, Virginia Pivik of Denver underwent a mastectomy in October 2007 and began chemotherapy and a year-long Herceptin regi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
For Mary McCurnin and husband Ron Bednar, money trouble has followed health trouble. In 2003, the couple declared bankruptcy after their insurance cov...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
For years, Ann Minch of Red Bluff, Calif., has carried a balance of several thousand dollars on her Bank of America credit card, making minimum monthl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Donna Whitaker applied for a mortgage modification on April Fools' Day. The joke was on her: Her bank, JPMorgan Chase, lost her paperwork and then den...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Rebecca Johnston, the mother of four featured in Barack Obama's 30-minute campaign infomercial last fall, will be shipping off to boot camp next Wedne...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
Unemployment can be lonely and frustrating. No fellow commuters, no coworkers. Lots of people don't know where they went wrong -- because they didn't...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
At a town hall event on Sunday in San Mateo County, Calif., Rep. Jackie Speier (D) broke from the question-and-answer format to ask a specially invite...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
Health insurance is mighty important to three-time cancer survivor Mary Duffy, of Redwood City, California. So when she lost her job in June 2008, she...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
People send me e-mails every day in response to items I've written about unemployment that ask for readers' stories. It's a simple thing: people are r...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
David Wheeland of Libertyville, Ill., lost his health insurance when he quit his job to care for his mother and uncle in 2007. He didn't plan for the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
Unemployed people send me emails every day. They write in response to the series of articles I've been writing about other unemployed people, folks ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
Faye Harris, 52, recently emailed the Huffington Post about losing her job as an accountant at Emory University Hospital in April. Reached by phone, ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
James O'Connell of California wrote the Huffington Post in response to an item about credit card companies tightening payment requirements for cardhol...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
Christopher Hardin, 54, wrote the Huffington Post to say he'd found a bright side to long-term unemployment. He'd become friends with his estranged fa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business
Dixie Redfearn of Nevada City, Calif. wrote the Huffington Post to say her 30-year journalism career ended when she lost her job more than four months...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Jennifer West lost her job as an editor over a year ago. She couldn't find a new gig. Now she's in school to get a master's degree in childhood specia...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
For Steve Dittmann, 55, unemployment has been surreal: "It's like there's two worlds out there: People who are still working, who are still living t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
The Huffington Post caught up with Marvin Bohn sitting on his porch in Yellow Springs, Ohio after a day of thunderstorms. He'd just come back from the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
As Election Day neared last fall, the Obama campaign went big with a 30-minute television ad that profiled four American families struggling to keep a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business