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Mike Levin: “I was looking through some of the letters. Let me just read a letter in which the author is a single parent from Geneva…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
I was looking through some of the letters. Let me just read a letter in which the author is a single parent from Geneva: ``I never thought that I would have to start all over again looking for work in my late forties. I hadn't even been 1 year cancer free. I'm a single parent of a teenage daughter. So, when my job terminated, so did my medical insurance . . . I had to move back to my mom's house. I could no longer afford my rent, car note, insurance, and the basic everyday needs of raising my daughter and keeping my own place . . . Please don't take away UI so soon. People like me need to keep it until we can find full-time work to take care of our families and help us keep our self-esteem.''
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California
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Dec 7, 2011

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