Job seekers turn to employment centers as unemployment benefits run out
FORT MYERS, Fla. – Career Source of Southwest Florida plans to help reacclimate thousands of people back into the workforce in the coming month. Federal unemployment benefits are set to run out at the end of June. Until then people who continue to collect the $300 a week in federal funds must prove they’re looking for a job. In Southwest Florida alone, there are 20 thousand people who are still unemployed and many of them are expected to visit Career Source to find a job after more than a year of collecting unemployment. Mia Williams lost her job last March and she said...