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please help with extended unemployment compensation. I am a 60 year old Ph.D. with 25 years of service to New Haven and Baltimore Public Schools. I got fired last September from Baltimore "at will" by a new superintendent who never met me. This even thought, I've gotten much support and appreciation from school staff and succeeded in raising performance throughout the district.
Maryland, as has been documented in several studies, provides less unemployment insurance to fewer people than almost any other state in the country. It took me 3 months and an attorney to get even one check from Maryland. I moved back to Connecticut.
I am running out of unemployment. I've spent the 20 thousand dollars I made from selling my condo. I've cashed in my only two IRAs, and cannot touch my 403(b) for 2 years. My COBRA health insurance is near $700 per month.
I can't seem to get a job in this economy. I can't even round up a temporary consulting job.
If I can't get through this crash with education, experience, success, loaded with computer skills, what chance do others have???
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please help with extended unemployment compensation. I am a 60 year old Ph.D. with 25 years of service to New Haven and Baltimore Public Schools. I got fired last September from Baltimore "at will" by a new superintendent who never met me. This even thought, I've gotten much support and appreciation from school staff and succeeded in raising performance throughout the district.
Maryland, as has been documented in several studies, provides less unemployment insurance to fewer people than almost any other state in the country. It took me 3 months and an attorney to get even one check from Maryland. I moved back to Connecticut.
I am running out of unemployment. I've spent the 20 thousand dollars I made from selling my condo. I've cashed in my only two IRAs, and cannot touch my 403(b) for 2 years.
My COBRA health insurance is near $700 per month.
I can't seem to get a job in this economy. I can't even round up a temporary consulting job.
If I can't get through this crash with education, experience, success, loaded with computer skills,
what chance do others have???
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