100,000 Petition Congress to Renew UI
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Workers today delivered petitions with 100,000 signatures to the Senate demanding that Congress extend unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to millions of long-term jobless workers.
In a telephone press conference this morning, Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who received the petitions, said they expect the Senate to take up an extension of UI benefits, but they have not yet gotten a date from the leadership.
You can act now to help the nation’s 6.2 million jobless. Call 1-877-662-2889 and ask for your senator’s office and then tell the person who answers the phone:
Across America, unemployment is at record levels. Emergency benefits for workers who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks are scheduled to expire Nov. 30. I urge you to renew them immediately!
14 Senators Urge Unemployment Extension
More than 1 million people hurt by the bad economy are at risk of losing their unemployment insurance by the end of the year. During the toughest economic crisis in more than a generation, 7,000 people every day are seeing their UI expiring—and it’s due to the petty obstructionism of two senators who are blocking the needed extension of UI benefits.
This afternoon, 14 senators from across the country joined together to urge swift passage of a UI extension, to give workers access to the system they’ve paid into and to keep families and communities economically secure. With unemployment officially at 9.8 percent and an estimated 26 million out of work or discouraged, we can’t wait any longer to extend UI.
