Jobless expected to overwhelm charities

Now what?

It’s an agonizing question facing a record 10,000 jobless people in metro Detroit who will exhaust their unemployment benefits over the next month and a half. A whopping 43,000 residents are expected to confront the same fate by year’s end, according to the state’s Unemployment Insurance Agency.

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