To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Extension of Unemployment Benefits Needed Urgently
To date there is no legislation pending to renew the federal unemployment benefits for 2013. However, Congress is being asked to consider an extension prior to the holidays to avoid millions of unemployed workers to face their own “unemployment cliff” at the end of the year. Without an extension all federal (EUC) benefits will expire on December 29, 2012. CONGRESS, PLEASE TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!
There are millions of unemployed constituents and their families who need you NOW.
There are millions of unemployed constituents and their families who need you NOW.
Why is this important?
My adult son called me last night. His job has been out-sourced to India. However, he has a temporary freelance job in down town Chicago. He walks home every evening. But last evening he was especially disturbed at the number of homeless young adults that he saw. Many had backpacks or a piece of luggage and were huddled in doorways with no place to sleep. Now unemployed and unable to keep up their rent or mortgage payments they are on their own in the now freezing Chicago elements. There are thousands of other “more seasoned” homeless people who have been without work for much longer who are now sleeping in boxes on mattresses under the via ducts. At the END OF DECEMBER the unemployment extensions end unless there is legislation passed. This is the United States of America! Do we not take care of our own people who need our help? Is it the vulnerable: the unemployed, the poor, the mentally ill, and the children who are always the first to get cut from fiscal consideration when there is a “cliff?”
This is URGENT! Please give this action priority during December.
This is URGENT! Please give this action priority during December.