This holiday season, over 2 million Americans will be cut off from their existing unemployment benefits. The TANF Emergency Fund, which subsidized 240,000 jobs for low-income families and youth, has yet to be renewed by Congress. With the unemployment rate continuing to hover at 9.6%, 5 job-seekers for every available opening, and the number of long-term unemployed continuing to climb, now is not the time to cut programs that help people get by.
But as of now, Congress hasn't even scheduled a vote on extending jobless benefits, and conservative leaders have vowed to put their energy for the few remaining weeks of this Congressional session into extending the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy. The same lawmakers who say our country cannot afford to maintain benefits for the jobless want to extend tax cuts for the rich that will cost the nation more than $700 billion. There is something seriously wrong with this logic!
Thousands of activists like you are calling Congress with a message: do your job for those who don’t have one! Can you take a minute right now and make a call?
Click here to make a fast, free call to Senator Schumer and your Representative, and tell them not to desert our workers!
CALL NOW AT 1-877-662-2889
Until there are enough jobs, we must continue the programs that serve as a lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans and their families. Tell Congress to extend Unemployment Insurance and the TANF Emergency Fund until the economy recovers, not tax cuts for the rich.
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