When the federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program expired on Dec. 28, 1.3 million Americans lost their long-term unemployment insurance -- a number that continues to rise as people across the country exhaust regular state benefits.

Another winter storm blew through the Deep South Tuesday night as the East Coast braces for their own deluge of sleet and snow. More than 100,000 customers in Georgia alone lost power due to the storm and several states are…