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Millions of American's have nothing to give to their children today, and your Elected official(s) will happily create millions more. Do what you can to put an end to this shameful behavior from our Congressional body, put a roof over the heads of millions of Unemployed Americans, join in the campaign call in Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 - Tell Your Senator(s) and Represenatives that you demand their immediate response to end this crisis

 Friends,

Congress came back into session today, and as many of you know, has one week left to ensure that the current federal extensions, COBRA subsidies, and additional $25 per week in everyone’s benefit checks continues uninterrupted after the end of the month. We are disappointed to report that the current plan in the Senate is to extend benefits by 15 days (through March 15th), and then work on a longer extension during the first two weeks of March. We don’t believe that any more deliberation should be necessary – this is a program that is vital for unemployed workers, their families and their communities and is the best economic stimulus that exists. It should be a no-brainer to extend this program through the end of the year and your legislators need to keep hearing that message. We can’t keep fighting this same fight every few weeks and every few months because it distracts from the business of getting the long-term unemployed back to work and fully supported in their efforts to do so.

Many of you have sent out our new action alert to both the Senate and the House, urging them to get the job done immediately, and we encourage you to keep sending emails and forwarding the alert to your friends. In the last few days alone, we’ve had thousands and thousands of letters go out, and we urgently need to keep up the momentum and make sure an extension is passed – ideally through the end of year.

To this end, the Jobs for America Now coalition is doing a second national call-in day tomorrow – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd. Please take a moment and call the offices of your elected officials, and let them know why UI extensions, $25 benefit supplement, and COBRA subsidies are so important. Visit the Jobs for America Now page to take action and receive talking points to help you with the call. Additionally, further talking points and updates are on our website, in our Action Center  and Blog.

We know many of you are concerned about what will happen with your benefits given the delay in reauthorizing these important programs. Many of the state workforce agencies who administer UI programs are trying to keep their programs up and running through the week, counting on Congress to do the right thing and reauthorize them all. They are taking that gamble to make sure that there is no interruption in benefits to you, so even if you are getting notices or reading about benefits stopping, that will ONLY happen if Congress fails to act before the close of business on Friday.

Thank you for your continued action, and we’ll be sending out regular updates, as well as posting on our blog, to let you know what is happening in Washington DC with these critical extensions. Please visit unemployedworkers.org to sign up as a media spokesperson for this campaign, take action on the extensions, and get the latest updates. We’ll be sure to keep you posted as things progress, and please know that your actions are so important in helping us get the message across to Congress that this needs to be their FIRST priority this week.

Your friends at unemployedworkers.org,

Andy, Andriette, Tiphany, Christine, Maurice, Judy and Rick