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Dulcinea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:13 PM
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Share the Petition: Tell Congress to Continue Federal Unemployment Benefits
Millions of America’s unemployed job-seekers will be cut off from existing federal jobless benefits starting November 30 unless Congress takes urgent action to renew and extend those benefit programs through 2011. These benefits have helped keep more than 9 million jobless workers and their families going this year alone, while they look for work in a tough economy. More than 5 million Americans who have been struggling to find jobs for six months or more currently rely on these federal unemployment benefits. Combined with state benefits, the expanded federal unemployment programs kept an estimated 3.3 million Americans out of poverty in 2009.

Renewing the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) and Extended Benefits (EB) programs is critical to helping jobless workers support their families while they continue their job searches as the holidays approach. And economists agree that unemployment benefits are critical to supporting local jobs in our communities as they strive to recover from the worst downturn since the 1930s.

http://www.unemployedworkers.org/page/s/Sign_the_Petition_to_Congress

Please sign...think the new Congress cares about the jobless? Me neither.
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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:29 PM
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1. signed and posted on my facebook page.
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:30 PM
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2. And then there is the whole contingent of 99ers
whose ranks are growing by the week. Even if everyone worked for minimum wage, there isn't 15 million job openings to absorb all of those workers. Tax cuts are great, but if you don't have a job, it means nothing to you.
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SunsetDreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:49 PM
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3. Which is why it would be helpful to Extend the Unemployment
Benefits.

We should all sign that petition. Help them now, and by all means work on getting the unemployment rate down.
Obama's trip to India will help with that. With the trade deal, he has created 53,670 jobs.

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x512319
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SunsetDreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:51 PM
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4. Done
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