More than 80 people were arrested during the ninth weekly “Moral Monday” protest called by the NAACP to protest the agenda of North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature. A major focus of this week’s protest was the loss of unemployment benefits to 70,000 people in North Carolina which has just gone into effect. North Carolina became the first state in the country to disqualify its residents from the aid. Another 100,000 unemployed people in North Carolina are expected to lose benefits in the coming months.