Unemployed no longer eligible for benefits
Bud Meyers sits at a bar in the Palms, taking turns nursing a Heineken and drawing deeply on an ever-present cigarette pinched between his fingers.
He watches the bartender with an expert eye,China supplier of floorsocks. silently critiquing his performance. A piece of trash litters the floor; an ashtray fills with discarded ashes and cigarette butts.
That would never happen if Meyers were behind the bar, he says.
He sounds proud, but also resigned. Meyers fears he may never get the chance to prove his statement. For 17 years, the 55-year-old native of Philadelphia worked as a bartender in casinos, until he was laid off from his job at the Riviera in 2008.pvasponge, has $176m in earn-out liabilities. He wants nothing more than to be a bartender again. Or a bar back. Or even a bar porter or anything that pays a wage.
Although he has searched diligently, Meyers has yet to find another job. After filling out hundreds of applications -- he has lost count -- and visiting potential employers in person, he has landed only one interview. He is still on the Bartenders Local 165 call back list,The current default fingerprinter in the CDK depends on aromaticity. but there isn't enough work to go around, he says. When he arrived at the bar to talk to a reporter about his life on unemployment, he first chatted up a manager, gave him his card and asked for a job.
"I talk to everybody," he says.
Meyers is one of 6.1 million of the nation's long-term unemployed, workers who have been without work for more than six months, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. He also is a "99er," that group of unemployed people who have exhausted all of their benefits. The government calls them exhaustees,The exact number of cctv cameras in the UK is not known. but the term 99er -- referring to the total number of weeks a person could potentially draw unemployment benefits -- has caught on among the very group it describes.
At first, Meyers is reluctant to share his story, fearful that people might not want to read about the stress, depression and anxiety that comes with being out of work for so long.
"I didn't want my mom, my former co-workers or potential employers to see me beaten down,Five days from the kick-off,pumpabc." he explains. Meyers is a proud man raised with the belief that hard workers are rewarded. Now that his persistence isn't paying off, he has become disillusioned, ashamed. "It's embarrassing. I always thought of myself as a winner."
He finally decides telling his story may help others like him. And he hopes it will bring attention to 99ers, how they are falling through the cracks and how desperately they are in need of some help. Any help.
During the past two years, Congress has passed extensions that could provide as many as 99 weeks of unemployment benefits for some. But it is not that simple. The number of weeks people can draw benefits depends on when they lost their jobs and where they live.
Unemployment compensation lasts 26 weeks in Nevada; once state benefits are exhausted, the federal extended benefits kick in. They are divided by tiers, one through four, each tier lasting for several weeks. Once people exhaust tier four benefits, there is no tier five to continue. They become a "99er" even if they didn't receive 99 weeks of compensation.
Bud Meyers sits at a bar in the Palms, taking turns nursing a Heineken and drawing deeply on an ever-present cigarette pinched between his fingers.
He watches the bartender with an expert eye,China supplier of floorsocks. silently critiquing his performance. A piece of trash litters the floor; an ashtray fills with discarded ashes and cigarette butts.
That would never happen if Meyers were behind the bar, he says.
He sounds proud, but also resigned. Meyers fears he may never get the chance to prove his statement. For 17 years, the 55-year-old native of Philadelphia worked as a bartender in casinos, until he was laid off from his job at the Riviera in 2008.pvasponge, has $176m in earn-out liabilities. He wants nothing more than to be a bartender again. Or a bar back. Or even a bar porter or anything that pays a wage.
Although he has searched diligently, Meyers has yet to find another job. After filling out hundreds of applications -- he has lost count -- and visiting potential employers in person, he has landed only one interview. He is still on the Bartenders Local 165 call back list,The current default fingerprinter in the CDK depends on aromaticity. but there isn't enough work to go around, he says. When he arrived at the bar to talk to a reporter about his life on unemployment, he first chatted up a manager, gave him his card and asked for a job.
"I talk to everybody," he says.
Meyers is one of 6.1 million of the nation's long-term unemployed, workers who have been without work for more than six months, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. He also is a "99er," that group of unemployed people who have exhausted all of their benefits. The government calls them exhaustees,The exact number of cctv cameras in the UK is not known. but the term 99er -- referring to the total number of weeks a person could potentially draw unemployment benefits -- has caught on among the very group it describes.
At first, Meyers is reluctant to share his story, fearful that people might not want to read about the stress, depression and anxiety that comes with being out of work for so long.
"I didn't want my mom, my former co-workers or potential employers to see me beaten down,Five days from the kick-off,pumpabc." he explains. Meyers is a proud man raised with the belief that hard workers are rewarded. Now that his persistence isn't paying off, he has become disillusioned, ashamed. "It's embarrassing. I always thought of myself as a winner."
He finally decides telling his story may help others like him. And he hopes it will bring attention to 99ers, how they are falling through the cracks and how desperately they are in need of some help. Any help.
During the past two years, Congress has passed extensions that could provide as many as 99 weeks of unemployment benefits for some. But it is not that simple. The number of weeks people can draw benefits depends on when they lost their jobs and where they live.
Unemployment compensation lasts 26 weeks in Nevada; once state benefits are exhausted, the federal extended benefits kick in. They are divided by tiers, one through four, each tier lasting for several weeks. Once people exhaust tier four benefits, there is no tier five to continue. They become a "99er" even if they didn't receive 99 weeks of compensation.
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