The failure of the unemployment extension has affected me strongly, even though I don't collect. I've been surfing around the web reading discussions on the subject, and it's just... devastating.
One guy told of losing his young wife to cancer two years ago and trying to raise his two young children himself. He's been out of work for 18 months and can't find anything. Now his benefits are running out and he and his boys will be in the streets by the end of the month. They have no food.