Urgent Action: Tell the Senate to Extend Unemployment Insurance
February 23rd, 2010 admin
Can you believe the Senate still hasn’t extended unemployment insurance? Benefits start to run out for a million job-seekers in a week, and some states have begun the process of taking those people off the rolls and telling them they will no longer have the check they depend on to get by while finding a new job. This did not sneak up on us. We here had plenty of time to see it coming , and the Senate should have had plenty of time to act. After losing a week of work to the massive snowstorms that paralyzed Washington, DC, the Senate went on a scheduled recess for a week. Now they’re turning their attention to unemployment again—but millions of…
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