Dear Friends,
Today -- right now -- tens of thousands of unemployed workers and many more supporters are flooding Congress with phone calls and messages urging immediate action to renew the full federal unemployment insurance program for 2012.
Click to call your Members of Congress now.
You can also call 1-888-245-3381 toll-free to hear a brief message and be connected to Senator Barbara Boxer, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Michael Honda.
Call your Members of Congress right now!
Unemployed workers and supporters are speaking out nationwide in a National Call-in & Action Day for jobs and renewal of federal unemployment insurance.
Thousands are gathering for a Vigil for the Jobless and Jobs on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Together with labor, faith and community group supporters, unemployed workers are gathering for similar events across the country. Find an event near you. Or, if you can't make it to an event, you can send email messages to Congressional leaders in both parties and to your Members of Congress. More than 70,000 messages have been sent already.
Congress has only a scant seven days left on its official session calendar this year, and expiration of the federal unemployment insurance program is looming on December 31. If Congress fails to act, nearly 2 million unemployed workers will be cut off of federal unemployment benefits in the month of January alone. Millions more would be cut off in subsequent months -- more than 6 million during 2012. That would be catastrophic, not only for millions of jobless workers and families, but failure to renew the program would trigger the loss of an estimated half a million more jobs.
Please call your Members of Congress now!
Tell Senator Barbara Boxer, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Michael Honda they must renew the full federal unemployment insurance program for 2012 now!
You can connect by phone on our Click-to-Call web page or call 1-888-245-3381.
In the past three years, the extensions of federal unemployment insurance have helped more than 17 million Americans while they’ve looked for work in the toughest job market since the Great Depression. And recent Census figures show that federal unemployment insurance helped keep more than 3 million Americans, including nearly 1 million children, from falling into poverty last year alone.
Congress has never allowed these programs to expire when unemployment was anywhere near this high for this long. Congress must act, and act now.
So, call your Members of Congress now!
Many thanks.
The UnemployedWorkers.Org Team
Mitchell, Chris, Maurice, Judy, Christine, Rebecca, Mike, Rick, George, Claire and Norman
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