Long-term jobless, like Madera man, face loss of unemployment payments

Now the 57-year-old is losing out on emergency long-term unemployment benefits -- just like almost 20,000 other residents of the central and southern San Joaquin Valley whose payments will be cut off today by the expiration of the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program.

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