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Tell Your U.S. Senators: Reject the Cuts! Fully Renew Unemployment Insurance for 2012
We need everyone to contact their Senators right now, and urge them to reject the massive cuts to unemployment insurance, and to renew the full federal unemployment insurance program through 2012. Dial 888-245-3381, and an
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Peter Dreier Op-ed: Jobless and hopeless in America
Jobless and hopeless in America – Peter Dreier in the LA Times With 25 million Americans out of work, the least Congress can do is extend their unemployment benefits. Thousands of long-term unemployed Americans
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USAEF ‘Hardly Working’ Report In the News
Cross-posted from USAction’s C3 sister organization - USAction Education Fund. To read the intro or download the full report, click here. Some press highlights below: “For Jobless, Little Hope of Restoring Better Days,” New York Times, December 2,
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Jobs For The 99%
Thousands of 99% protesters are in Washington, D.C. this week to Take Back the Capitol. Yesterday we swarmed congressional offices all over Capitol Hill. Hundreds of jobless workers and their supporters told powerful stories of
Read More »NEW Report: Hardly Working: Stories From Un- and Under-employed Americans
Cross-posted from USAction’s C3 sister organization - USAction Education Fund. For the full PDF of Hardly Working, click here. Introduction At minimum, 14 million Americans are unemployed. At least 26 million are un- or
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Take Back The Capitol!
The 99% are taking Congress back from the 1% next week in Washington D.C. Hundreds of activists and jobless workers from around the country are coming to Washington to fight for JOBS, not
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Super Committee Melts Down. Time to Cut Pentagon Spending.
You’ve probably heard the news. The supercommittee negotiations have broken down. On the one hand, this is good news for progressives because we have avoided massive cuts to vital programs like Social Security, Medicare
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Corporate handouts for the 1% don’t create jobs for the 99%
The 1% has more than enough, but ultra-rich, multinational corporations like GE, Pfizer and Microsoft are buying OUR Congress and lobbying for their taxes to be slashed AGAIN. They want a “tax holiday” to
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NEW REPORT: Fool Me Twice? Corporations Pay Congress to Rip Off Taxpayers Again
November 2011 (Download full report) Executive Summary With the deadline looming for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or “supercommittee,” major corporations have argued for the second tax holiday in a decade through
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OWS: “You can’t evict an idea whose time has come.”
Occupy Wall Street has been evicted from the birthplace of the Occupy movement. Will you stand in solidarity with OWS by taking action TOMORROW? Go to http://www.november17.org/ to find an event near you and join tens of thousands
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