Received this e-mail today from Senator Cory Booker (D. NJ):
It's shocking: More than 2 million people have now lost the unemployment insurance they depend on to keep looking for work. We've been negotiating in the Senate for months to pass an extension, and voted three times to pass it -- falling just one vote short the last time it came to the floor.
Meanwhile, the House has done nothing.
As part of ongoing negotiations in the Senate, last week Republican Senators put forward a plan for renewing unemployment insurance -- only to see it rejected by House Speaker John Boehner.
Speaker Boehner's office said no plan -- not even his own party's -- would get a vote. I'm teaming up with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to tell Boehner that for job-seekers struggling to stay in their homes and pay their bills, that's unacceptable.
Please join me and thousands of SEIU members and supporters and sign our petition calling on Speaker Boehner to bring an unemployment insurance extension up for a vote.
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Before she lost her job, Vickey worked as a customer service representative for the Michigan unemployment claims agency. As an SEIU member, she worked to help people get through the lowest points of their lives, some relying on UI to save their homes, or even just to buy some groceries for their families.
When cutbacks and layoffs claimed her job, she depended on unemployment insurance to make ends meet.
Like many others, however, Vickey lost this lifeline last December, and is now one of more than 2 million job-seeking Americans waiting for Congress to take action.
This issue is about recognizing the dignity, worth, and limitless potential of all Americans -- the people Vickey helped when she was working, and now Vickey, herself.
Stand up for the dignity and worth of millions of job-seeking Americans who are desperate for Congress to act on this critical issue, and tell Speaker Boehner to bring unemployment insurance up for a vote.
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Change is never made from the top down; it always comes from the grassroots up.
Thanks for making your voice heard.
Cory
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