Keith's Rant on "The Deal" (video)

MSNBC-Countdown, video (11:51).

"No help for 99ers in tax cut framework"

Joan McCarter:

The long-term unemployed are on the verge of dropping off the political radar entirely. This potential agreement would probably seal their hopeless fate. A 13-month extension of the current tiers is likely the last we'll get for the unemployed out of this government. MORE...

60 Minutes on the 99ers (video)

CBSNewsOnline, video (13:15):

Even after an extension of unemployment benefits to 99 weeks, many of those about to go off the program are in a quandary. Scott Pelley talks to some of them in Silicon Valley.

99ers: "WE NEED JOBS BILL, NOT BULL" (video)

FlashMobs4Jobs, video (04:16):

Where are the jobs?
We're 99ers who can't take the BS anymore.
We're desperate for work and NEED HELP.
Please join us -- help us push for help for the long term unemployed.
This is our first flash mob - what do you think?

"Help For The 99ers After Current Benefits Reauthorized"

Arthur Delaney:

Over the summer, Congress spent 50 days fighting over a reauthorization of the current four tiers of federally-funded jobless aid as Republicans and some Democrats objected to the deficit cost of the benefits. The reauthorization was ultimately approved, but only though November, at which time the fight will probably happen again. It won't be easy for Berkley and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who introduced a similar bill in the upper chamber, to win much support.

"It's very tough, but it's a whole lot tougher to be unemployed and to have rent to pay and food to put on the table for your kids to eat," said Berkley. "There's some sort of misconception here that if somehow you don't extend unemployment benefits, that poor people are going to disappear. They don't. They end up on welfare, they end up on food stamps, they end up homeless and they end up desperate, so the idea that they'll just go away is ludicrous. It doesn't happen. MORE. .

"Ed Schultz Blasts Republicans for Inaction on Jobs" (with video)

golefttv, video (06:28).

Watch as Ed Schultz of MSNBC's The Ed Show assails the do-nothing Republicans in Congress for refusing to allow unemployment benefits to be extended to the 4 million people about to be without any source of income.

H/t to Darryl.