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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Know the facts about unemployment benefits]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:08:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does Jason Hiner know about this article?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In his recent Sanity check, he seemed to think we wouldn't face this kind of thing since the future is so bright for IT workers.Having been unemployed for several long stretches over the past 7 years, I agree that it is important to know how unemployment compensation works in your state and what you will receive from it if you have to use it. In my state, it's about minimum wage. Because the payout was so low I found it better to opt out of it and instead sell stuff on eBay, write MySpace and eBay templates, do some affiliate marketing, and do other short term free lance work. While this work didn't make as much as my salary did, it was substantially more than what unemployment paid.Another key was to have a financial buffer set aside. I recommend that anyone working in IT try to have a 6 month's income savings buffer to protect themselves from the instability of this industry.]]></description>
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