Any time our economy adds jobs, it’s a good thing, and the decline in the unemployment rate is a step in the right direction. But we’re still not adding jobs at the rate we need to recover from the devastating recession, and our elected officials need to focus all of their energy on putting America back to work. Our 3 million Working America members are paying attention to what goes on in Congress and in state legislatures. At our conversations at the doors every night, we still hear that job creation is the number one issue for our members and their families.
Despite the addition of 120,000 net jobs, thousands of people are discouraged from entering the work force. A minority in the Senate has repeatedly blocked bills that would inject much-needed money into our economy and put hundreds of thousands of people back to work—all in the name of protecting historically low tax rates for the very wealthy. At the same time, in less than a month, unemployment insurance is set to expire for millions of jobless workers.
At the state level, the picture looks similarly bleak for working families. Short-sighted budget cuts have put thousands of public servants like teachers, nurses and firefighters out of work, depriving our communities of much-needed services. That needs to change.
Working America members have a message for their elected officials: end the delays and immediately pass extensions of job-creating tax relief and unemployment insurance for the millions without jobs. Today’s job numbers are positive, but they show how far we have to go to get our economy working again for everyone.
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by Mike Hall – Reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog
The nation’s unemployment rate in November fell to 8.6 percent down from October’s 9 percent and the lowest since March 2009. The economy added 120,000 jobs last month, according to the latest figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Economists say the nation needs 130,000-150,000 new jobs each month to keep up with the growth of the workforce, and the large drop in the unemployment rate also is the result of some 315,000 workers dropping out of the labor force. The jobless rate counts only people who are actively looking for work.
Economic Policy Institute (EPI) economist Heidi Shierholz says:
At this pace of job growth, it will be more than two decades before we get back down to the pre-recession unemployment rate. Moreover, a shrinking labor force is not the way we want to see unemployment drop. At this rate of growth we are looking at a long, long schlep before our sick labor market recovers.
More than 13 million workers remain unemployed, but some 26 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have stopped looking for work. The number of long-term jobless (more than 27 weeks) was 5.7 million, or 43 percent of the total jobless.
Unemployment Insurance (UI) coverage for the long-term unemployed is set to expire Dec. 31 and nearly 2 million out-of-work Americans will be cut off from federal UI coverage the first week of January alone, unless Congress renews the program. More than 6 million workers could potentially lose their critically needed UI coverage over the course of 2012.
Wednesday, some 200 jobless workers rallied on Capitol Hill and delivered 75,000 petitions urging Congress act now to extend unemployment insurance coverage. The rally kicked off week-long series of actions to demand Congress act and will culminate with a Dec. 8 Capitol Hill rally of jobless workers, union members and community and faith activists.
Today’s figures show that unemployment rate for adult men fell by 0.5 percentage point to 8.3 percent in November. The jobless rate for whites declined from 8 to 7.6 percent while the jobless rate for African Americans rose to 15.5 percent from 15.1 percent in October. The rates for adult women (7.8 percent), teenagers (23.7 percent) and Hispanics (11.4 percent) showed little or no change.
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Mixed numbers in the June jobs report could make for some confusing analysis in pundit-land today. So, let’s take a clear look at the reported statistics before we discuss their import.
Total non-farm employment declined by 125,000 in June, reflecting the impact of a decrease of 225,000 in the number of temporary federal Census workers. Private sector employment increased by 83,000 — somewhat less than most economists reportedly expected. One-fourth of the increase in private jobs were in temporary services.
The official unemployment rate decreased to 9.5% from 9.7%, but as we will see that was due to a reported decline of 652,000 in the civilian labor force and a drop of 0.3% in the labor force participation rate.
The number of long-term unemployed, those out of work for six months or more, remained at a post-Depression record level, unchanged at 6.8 million, while the average duration of unemployment continued its persistent rise to 35.2 weeks.
Taking the suggestion of Calculated Risk, if we eliminate the Census employment number (-225,000) from the total employment change statistic (-125,000), we see a net ex-Census gain of 100,000 jobs. That is about what’s normally needed just to keep pace with population-related labor force growth. It certainly does not even begin to chip away at the 11 million jobs deficit that the U.S. economy faces.
And, as the numbers show, the job market is not growing fast enough even to offset the declines in public sector employment.
Here are two views of comparative job losses in U.S. recessions, the first with job losses charted from the start of the recessions.
click for larger version at Calculated Risk
The second with job losses aligned for maximum job loss, at the bottom of the recessions.
click for larger version at Calculated Risk
Which brings us back to that new 9.5% unemployment rate, down from 9.7% in May. That’s the number that those who wish to put on rose-colored glasses to read this jobs report will want to focus on. And I’m sure the austerity hounds, deficit hawks and stimulus-bashing conservatives will latch onto that 9.5% rate as proof that the unemployment situation is improving, so we can cut back on unemployment insurance and reduce stimulative spending.
But, as I noted earlier, the decline in the unemployment rate was due to a decline of 652,000 workers from the civilian labor force, and a 0.3% drop in the participation rate to 64.7%. And the reported decline in the number of unemployed workers to 14.6 million was entirely due to the significant increases in the number of those categorized as “marginally attached” and “discouraged” workers. These are all jobless workers who want full-time work but are not counted as unemployed because they either had given up looking or did not look for work in the reporting period.
As Table A shows, June saw an increase of 368,000 in those “marginally attached”, to a total of 2.59 million; and an increase of 124,000 in “discouraged” workers, to a total of 1.2 million. So, even while the regular U-3 unemployment rate declined, the larger U-5 rate, which includes marginally attached and discouraged workers, actually increased to 11.1%.
Overall, there’s really no good news in the jobs report for June. Private employer hiring remains sluggish just as public sector employment is declining. Preliminary figures in today’s employer survey showed significant declines in state and local government employment, particularly in education jobs. State education employment was down 280,000 and local governments lost 352,000 education jobs, according to today’s report.
The positive economic impact of last year’s stimulus is now declining. And more job losses can be expected as states, municipalities and local school districts continue to cut their budgets. Meanwhile, efforts in Congress to spur job growth and provide aid to states as well as to the unemployed, struggling families, youth and older workers all remain stalled by Republican obstruction and the dangerously dumb fixation on fiscal deficits.
Republicans will take this jobs report and shout “the stimulus was a failure” and “government is thwarting growth.” The austerity hounds will chime in, pointing to the reported decline in the unemployment rate as an excuse to inflict more pain.
Anyone who can see straight sees we are in deep trouble — and that there is a clear need for new, large-scale jobs programs, a stronger safety-net, and massive investments to re-employ and re-build America.
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Hopes for a continued strengthening of job growth in the private sector received a setback with the release of today’s employment report from the Labor Department. Private employers, many of whom continue to shed jobs as part of ongoing cost-reduction schemes, were only able to increase their overall employment by a net 41,000 in May. But 31,000 of those jobs were in temporary services, according to the report’s employer survey.
Total employment grew by 431,000 in May, with the addition of 411,000 temporary U.S. government Census workers. State and local governments shed 21,000 jobs last month, reflecting continued severe budget shortfalls caused by recession-induced revenue declines.
The small gain in private employment came after an increase of 218,000 private sector jobs in April and 158,000 in March. The overall unemployment rate declined from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent, the same rate it was from January through March.
The manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, and health care sectors all posted modest jobs increases. But construction, retail trades and financial services showed net job losses.
The total number of unemployed was little changed at 15 million, a number that has been fairly constant going back to last summer. The .2% decline in the unemployment rate was due to a reported 322,000 drop in the size of the labor force, perhaps an anomaly in the household survey data.
Among the unemployed, the average duration of unemployment increased to 34.4 weeks. Long-term unemployment continued to rise, setting yet another new post-war record. The number of Americans unemployed for 27 weeks or more increased by 47,000 to 6,763,000 — representing 46 percent of all the unemployed. Another troubling statistic emerged in the duration of unemployment data: those unemployed for less than 5 weeks increased by 70,000 workers.
A summary from reactions to today’s report follows:
The Economic Policy Institute:
“These new data do not present a picture of a healthy private sector and offer nothing even closely resembling the job growth we need to dig us out of a very deep hole,” said EPI president Lawrence Mishel.
The vast majority of May’s new jobs (411,000, or 95%) were temporary Census jobs that will disappear over the summer. The private sector saw very modest growth, adding just 41,000 jobs, much slower than the average growth of the previous three months, which was 146,000.
An ongoing concern is the size of the gap in the labor market. To put it in perspective, consider the following: in the boom of the late 1990s, the fastest year of employment growth was 2.6%, in 1998. If, in the event we have that extremely strong level of growth from here on out, we would still not get down to pre-recession unemployment rates until January 2015. The hole in the labor market is staggering, unemployment remains near 10% and long-term unemployment continues to break records.
“Given this uninspiring employment picture, the economic case for substantial additional government action to aid the long-term unemployed and to generate jobs remains overwhelming,” said EPI economist Heidi Shierholz.
Dean Baker at the Center for Economic and Policy Research:
Excluding the temporary Census hires, the economy has generated 132,000 jobs a month over the last three months, just a bit more than the amount needed to keep pace with the growth of the labor force.
This report is a clear warning that the recovery is very weak. The weakness is in spite of the temporary stimulus provided by the hiring of 550,000 Census workers. With house prices falling again, severe state and local budget cutbacks looming, and troubles in Europe dampening exports, the future is not bright.
Meteor Blades at Daily Kos:
Today’s eagerly anticipated jobs report from the Department of Labor fell far short of expectations, once again raising serious questions about the sustainability of the recovery that began in the third quarter of 2009. The total job increase was 431,000, but private-sector hiring hit a disappointing 41,000 jobs, far less than the 180,000 median prediction of 82 experts surveyed by Bloomberg. Some of the experts had predicted as many as 750,000 jobs would be added.
Given that stimulus spending will fade sharply in the third and fourth quarter, it’s now up to the private sector to sustain growth in employment. Experts, including many Fed bank branch presidents, have been saying for months that a tepid economy was in the works.
Meteor Blades added this chart among the comment replies:
One thing we can expect is that the Republicans will take glee in the devastating weakness of today’s report. They’re always on the lookout for whatever they can use against the Democrats, even when it means continued misery for millions of Americans. And what do they offer an alternative to current policies? Deficit cuts, more shredding of the safety net, lower taxes for their gated-community pals, obstruction on extending unemployment benefits. Unfortunately, many Democrats have joined the chorus for deficit cutting and knocking big chunks out of measures designed to help the 15 million Americans who are officially out of work.
(That’s the “Dangerous Crossroads” I described here three days ago.)
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Today’s jobs report shows a labor market that has turned the corner and is creating jobs but one with a long way to go toward a full recovery from the devastating job losses of 2008-09. The percentage of the population with a job is generally moving in the right direction but remains at a very depressed level (see chart).
Unemployment is still very high, and jobs are still hard to find.
Under these circumstances, policymakers should have no qualms about passing a robust jobs bill — indeed, they would be derelict not to. Unemployed workers struggling to find a job need the help, and based on current forecasts of relatively weak economic growth for the rest of the year, the economic recovery could really use an additional boost.
The AFL-CIO:
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the low number of private-sector jobs is further evidence the recovery is still fragile.
“The Economic Recovery Act saved us from a second Great Depression, but it was not sufficient to power strong and sustained job growth, and its effects are expected to wane in coming months.”
He called on Congress to do more to create jobs and sustain the recovery.
“Most immediately, Congress must move quickly to restore health care benefits for the unemployed and provide aid to states to maintain jobs and vital services. We already see state and local governments shedding 22,000 jobs in May. Without further action to offset state budget shortfalls, these job losses will offset temporary gains from federal spending.”
Christina Romer, chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers:
Payroll employment rose for the fifth month in a row, and the unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 9.7 percent. While these are encouraging developments, we clearly have a very long way to go until the labor market is fully recovered. It is essential that we continue our efforts to move in the right direction and generate steady, strong job gains and continuing declines in unemployment.
The fact that the unemployment rate fell and private employment rose are obviously encouraging signs that recovery continues. At the same time, the continued high level of unemployment and the slowdown in private sector job growth emphasize the need for continuing vigilance. The Administration strongly supports targeted actions to spur private sector job creation and prevent continued reductions in state and local government employment. Tax incentives for clean energy manufacturing and energy efficiency, extensions of unemployment insurance and other key income support programs, a fund to encourage small business lending, and fiscal relief for state and local governments are essential measures to ensure a more rapid, widespread recovery.
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The jobs report for April released this morning by the Labor Department showed the largest monthly gain in employment in four years even as the number of unemployed swelled to 15.3 million and the unemployment rate rose to 9.9%.
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 290,000 in April, the unemployment rate edged up to 9.9 percent, and the labor force increased sharply, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
The household survey data showed:
In April, the number of unemployed persons was 15.3 million, and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.9 percent. The rate had been 9.7 percent for the first 3 months of this year.
Data from the employer survey showed:
In April, nonfarm payroll employment rose by 290,000. Sizable employment gains occurred in manufacturing, professional and business services, health care, and in leisure and hospitality. Federal government employment increased due to the hiring of temporary workers for Census 2010. Since December, nonfarm payroll employment has expanded by 573,000, with 483,000 jobs added in the private sector. The vast majority of job growth occurred during the last 2 months.
Federal government employment was up in April, reflecting the hiring of 66,000 temporary workers for the decennial census.
The household data reported a 550,000 increase in the number of employed persons as well as an increase of 255,000 unemployed. The combined increase of 805,000 in the official labor force was due primarily to more people actively seeking work. But the increase in the number of unemployed to 15.3 million drove the unemployment rate up to 9.9%.
Clearly, there’s some definite progress — but nowhere near enough yet to begin to make up the 11 million jobs deficit caused by the Great Recession.
Here’s a summary of some early reporting on the latest jobs figures:
From The New York Times:
The American economy added an unexpectedly strong 290,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent, the government said Friday.
Analysts had expected a gain of about 190,000 in the month.
With revisions on Friday, April was the fourth consecutive month that the economy added workers (a revised 230,000 jobs were added in March instead of 162,000), the job market still has a long way to go before it can be counted on to provide a base for a sustained economic recovery. More than 15.3 million were unemployed last month.
Besides March, February was revised from a loss of 14,000 jobs to a gain of 39,000. With a January gain of 14,000, the cumulative increase came to 573,000 jobs in four months.
The Times also noted that many people finding work are taking jobs for much less pay than they used to make before becoming unemployed.
Meteor Blades at Daily Kos notes the continuing rise in long-term unemployment:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in its seasonally adjusted calculations this morning that some 290,000 new jobs were created in April, far above the consensus of experts surveyed by Bloomberg earlier in the week. Those numbers were made better by the fact that only 66,000 of the new jobs were temporary Census hires, just two-thirds of what was expected. As large numbers of Americans returned to the labor force, the official unemployment rate rose to 9.9%. Some 15.3 million Americans are now officially out of work.
The U6 unemployment rate, an alternative measure that includes underemployed Americans and some who have become too discouraged to look for jobs, rose to 17.1%. The number of long-term unemployed, those without jobs for 27 weeks or more, rose to a new record high of 6.7 million.
The Washington Post noted:
Economists say that in order for substantial, sustainable job growth to occur, the weekly new jobless claims number needs to get down into the low 400,000s or upper 300,000s and stay there. Yesterday, the government reported that 444,000 Americans filed jobless claims last week, the third straight week of declines.
Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute reports “Most private sector job growth in four years, but jobless rate rises to 9.9%”:
The increase in employment was not large enough to keep the unemployment rate from rising to 9.9%, as 805,000 workers entered the labor force. The recent surge in the labor force is a partial correction for the labor force decline of the second half of 2009, but there remains a backlog of people waiting to enter or re-enter the labor market in search of work. This will continue to keep the unemployment rate elevated even as jobs are added.
Another ongoing issue is long-term unemployment. The number of people who have been unemployed for more than six months is now 6.7 million and growing. Currently, 45.9% of this country’s 15.3 million unemployed workers have been unemployed for more than half a year.
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The March employment summary showed a net jobs increase of 162,000 for the month, the best result reported by employers since October 2007, raising hopes that the deepest jobs recession since the Great Depression is at least stabilizing.
Source: Calculated Risk
But there was little change in overall unemployment, still stuck at 9.7 percent. The number of people officially unemployed increased by 134,000 to more than 15 million. Another 2.3 million wanted work but were not counted in the labor force. And the number of people working only part-time, but wanting full-time work, increased by a seasonally adjusted 263,000 to more than 9 million.
The biggest story hidden in the latest jobs report, though, is the continuing massive increase in long-term unemployment, with the number of those jobless for 6 months or longer increasing by more than 400,000 in March to more than 6.5 million.
A small increase was reported in construction jobs, after nearly three years of continuous declines. But how much of that was due to a bounce after February’s snowstorms is difficult to gauge. Modest job gains were also reported for durable goods manufacturing, retail, education and health care.
But more than half of the total jobs increase was in temporary hiring, with private employers adding 40,000 temporary jobs and the federal government adding 48,000 temporary census workers. Fully one-third of private employer jobs added in March were temporary jobs.
“It’s not a great picture, but at least things are not getting worse,” economist Dean Baker told me in an email. Baker’s Jobs Byte from the Center for Economic and Policy Research noted that nominal wages fell in March for just the sixth time since 1964, something that is “not a good sign for future income growth.”
Persistent high jobless rates not only continued but increased slightly again for African-Americans, Hispanics and teenagers. Unemployment for all teens increased 1.1 percent to 26.1 percent. The jobless rate for blacks increased 0.7 percent to 16.5 percent. Hispanic unemployment was up 0.2 percent to 12.6 percent in March.
But the worst and most troubling news by far was in the data for the longer-term unemployed.
While the number of people unemployed for less than 15 weeks and less than 5 weeks both declined, those unemployed for more than 26 weeks increased dramatically.
Seasonally adjusted, those unemployed for 27 weeks or more increased by 414,000 to more than 6.5 million.
The not seasonally adjusted numbers are even worse: those unemployed for 27 weeks or more increased 425,000 to more than 6.7 million.
The percent of the unemployed who have been jobless for 6 months or more continued to increase, to a seasonally adjusted record of 44.1 percent and to 42.8 percent not seasonally adjusted.
The average duration of unemployment hit another record at 32.1 weeks.
Source: Paper Economy
A set of interactive historical charts is available by clicking on the graphs here from Paper Economy.
Long-term unemployment has reached catastrophic proportions. The number of net jobs being created is nowhere near the 400,000 per month baseline that is needed to begin to bring employment levels back to even pre-recession levels in the next few years. When we need millions of new full-time jobs, most of the small number of jobs being created are either temporary or part-time. And even those are not being filled by the long-term unemployed.
Meanwhile, with Congress having failed to overcome the Republican obstruction of extended unemployment insurance and COBRA benefits, one million long-term jobless are at risk of losing benefits this month, with more than 200,000 set to lose their benefits in the next week alone before Congress reconvenes.
Tell your Senators they must restore extended unemployment and COBRA benefits retroactively as the first order of business. And tell your member of the House of Representatives that you need them to co-sponsor the Local Jobs for America Act to support one million good-paying full-time jobs.
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Here’s the shorter official jobs report for February: not much change in an abysmal situation.
The official unemployment rate remained at 9.7%.
Employers surveyed reported a net loss of another 36,000 jobs last month, a number in line with the 34,000 increase in the number of unemployed in the household survey. While the rate of job losses the last several months has been moderate relative to the massive losses earlier in the recession, we are still losing jobs.
After spending much of the morning watching the talking heads and business pundits on news channels talk endlessly about the numbers and what impact they might have on “the markets”, it’s pretty clear that most of them have forgotten that the statistics are, in fact, real people.
And right now there are nearly 16 million Americans officially unemployed, according to the latest household survey’s Table A-12 (not seasonally adjusted). Of those out of work, the average duration of unemployment rose in February to 29.3 weeks, with nearly 6.3 million unemployed for 6 months or more.
Official unemployment totals do not include those considered “not in the labor force“, such as the 2.5 million jobless who had not looked for work in the 4 weeks prior. Of those, the 1.2 million considered “discouraged” workers was up by 139,000 — the fifth consecutive monthly increase.
The number of people wanting full-time work but only working part-time (Table A-8) increased from 8.3 to 8.8 million (seasonally adjusted), and remained at 9.3 million (not seasonally adjusted).
The official unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, was 10.4% as reported in the lesser-known Table A-15 Alternative measures of labor underutilization. More than 26 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, nearly 18% of the workforce.
Employers reported job losses for the month in most industries, with job growth limited to temporary help services, education and health services. Government was not exempt from the job declines, with public employment down by 18,000 jobs, despite the 15,000 newly hired for the 2010 census. Facing huge budget shortfalls due to declines in revenues resulting from the recession, many state and local governments continue to lay off workers. And the depression in the construction sector continues with the loss of another 64,000 jobs. It’s now been three years of consecutive monthly job losses in construction.
Unemployment among African-Americans remains staggeringly high. Not seasonally adjusted, the official unemployment rate for black men 20 years and over is 19.1%, 11.8% for black women 20 years and over, and a catastrophic 41.4% for African-American teenagers 16 to 19 years old.
The one real bright spot in today’s jobs report was the increase of 308,000 people reportedly employed in the household survey. Whether that translates into a positive trend, or represents a temporary weather-related boost is still to be seen.
All of the above, nevertheless, adds up to a continuing national tragedy — one that will not be adequately addressed by the far-too-modest jobs plans being considered in Congress. If Congress insists on taking a piecemeal approach to finally tackling the jobs crisis, then it needs a legislative agenda that contains the right pieces. The recession that caused this crisis is unlike any other post-war recession.
That’s why we need a response capable of providing the jolt to forge a recovery powered by millions of good new jobs. The American Jobs Plan, the basis of the five-point plan supported by the AFL-CIO and the Jobs for America Now coalition — provides the practical solutions America so desperately needs right now.
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Somewhat contradictory stories emerged from the latest jobs report for January, in which 20,000 more private sector jobs were lost even as the unemployment rate dropped to 9.7% from 10.0% in December.
While employment levels continued to stagnate, the number of discouraged workers — those not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them, and though jobless are not counted as unemployed — continued to rise to nearly 1.1 million.
The real story was to be found in far more disturbing data contained elsewhere in the January report.
Major revisions to the employment data for 2009 showed that the jobs crisis caused by the Great Recession has, in fact, been much more severe than previously reported.
The total nonfarm employment level for March 2009 was revised downward by 902,000 (930,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis), or 0.7 percent. The previously published level for December 2009 was revised downward 1,390,000 (1,363,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis).
The revisions by month are listed in Table A in the employment summary.
But it’s the shocking statistics in Table A-12 Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment for January 2010 that clearly demonstrate the relentless deepening of the current unemployment crisis. The number of unemployed workers (not seasonally adjusted) currently out of work for different lengths of time is staggering:
The number of unemployed for less than 5 weeks was 3,464,000 — an increase of 593,000 from December 2009.
Those unemployed from 5 to 14 weeks numbered 3,698,000 — up by 363,000 from the previous month.
The number of unemployed for 15 weeks and over was 8,986,000 — an increase of 452,000.
And those unemployed for 27 weeks or more numbered 6,423,000 — up by 527,000 from December 2009.
Only the 15 to 26 week category showed a modest decline, but that category also has the lowest percentage of the total unemployed. It is the continuing increases in both short-term and, especially long-term unemployment that should help convince policy makers and the Congress that it’s time for a major set of new jobs initiatives, programs that are big enough and bold enough to meet the crisis head on.
The very first and most urgent step is for Congress to extend the Recovery Act’s unemployment insurance and COBRA subsidy programs through 2010. But with these programs set to expire February 28, time is running out for millions of unemployed Americans. Congress must act to keep the lifeline from being cut off.
Working America is joining more than 60 other major organizations in a national Call-in to Congress organized by the Jobs for America Now coalition to tell Congress it must take urgent action to extend jobless benefits.
Click here to call or here to email. Don’t let Congress cut off the lifelines for the unemployed.
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