CALL NOW! The Jobless Can't Wait Any Longer.
Fifteen million jobless are still waiting for our Senators to finish the job and pass unemployment insurance extension. Millions more are waiting for COBRA health subsidies and aid to states.
CALL NOW: 1-888-854-1978
Tell your Senator to vote for the American Jobs & closing Tax Loopholes Act:
- extend unemployment insurance benefits through November 2010
- extend State Fiscal relief (FMAP) for 6 months
- fund the emergency TANF fund through 2011
- vote YES on the amendment to reinstate the COBRA subsidy that the House stripped from the bill
This jobs crisis is deeper and longer-lasting than even the Reagan recession of the 1980s. State and local governments are starting to lay off thousands of teachers, and experts predict a loss of nearly one million jobs in the coming months if Congress fails to help the states now.
So what's the hold up?
Many Democrats seem to be falling for right-wing scare tactics about the budget deficit and some are even buying into the ridiculous argument that getting jobless benefits keeps the unemployment rate higher.
But defecits are necessary in a jobs crisis. Just imagine what forcing one million more onto the jobless rolls will do to our economy. Unemployment insurance not only gives workers a lifeline in an emergency, it also serves as a valulable stimulus.
15 million people can't wait any longer.
CALL NOW: 1-888-854-1978
