Long-term unemployed people in North Carolina and Tennessee are getting their money back after local leaders reinstated a federal jobless aid program that expired in April. In a surprise statement announcing an executive order that would unilaterally restore unemployment benefits for 47,000 jobless North Carolinians whose checks stopped because a political standoff, Gov. Bev Perdue (D) specifically cited an unemployed woman who'd been evicted after she'd been cut off. "One woman called my office recently," Perdue said. "She has a background in accounting and has been looking for work for months. Because she lost her benefits she and her daughter can no longer stay in their apartment. They have nowhere to put their...  MORE