Advocacy Made Easy – Unemployment Benefit Extension

Our Friends at Ntework: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby have a nifty form on their Website that makes it easy to advocate for an national extension to Unemployment benefits.

An estimated 154,000 people in California will exhaust their Unemployment benefits by the end of 2009.  California has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, at 11.9%.  HR 3548 would provide 14 additional weeks of benefits to jobless workers in all 50 states. Those in states like California, with high unemployment rates (a three-month average rate of at least 8.5%) would get another six weeks of benefits, for a total of 20 weeks.

Christine Owens, the Executive Director of the National Employment Law Project, says:

By extending benefits 14 weeks to every state, and an additional 6 weeks to those states hit hardest by the recession, this legislation is an essential component to economic recovery and could not come at a better time.

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