In November, Deral Wise was making $3,000 a week as an electrical designer for CH2M Hill working on a North Slope oil field project. Now, he’s collecting $376 in weekly unemployment benefits, and looking for work as far away as the Lower 48. He has three more months of unemployment checks left. “We just our tighten our belt, buy what we have to buy. We’re eating hamburger, not prime rib,” he said.
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