What is it like to run out of unemployment benefits?

To find out, take a look at the stories of some of some of our neighbors down the road in Elkhart.

See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32555445/ns/us_news-the_elkhart_project

What kind of community do we want to be?

Are we a community that leaves adult workers with no means of supporting themselves or their children once they lose their jobs? Right now, there are many times more people who are unemployed than there are jobs available.

Or are we the kind of community where neighbors help each other through the institutions of our representative democracy as well as through volunteerism and charity?

It is up to each of us to decide, to take a stand, and to act.