Lucas,
Unemployment insurance survived its first vote today in the Senate. But that’s just the first step – and it still needs to pass in the House, where pundits predict it has no hope of passage.
That’s an unacceptable outcome for more than a million out of work Americans.
Yet that’s where we are. Days after Christmas, Republicans let these critical benefits expire, and they continue to stand in the way of renewing them.
This is a lifeline, keeping hardworking Americans from losing their homes or falling deep into debt while they search for a job. For single mothers, for whom the unemployment rate far outpaces the national average, this will hurt them and their children.
Now is not the time to cut benefits that people are counting on. This will affect 127,000 New Yorkers and up to 4.5 million Americans nationwide. We have to ask extreme Republicans: Why aren’t you doing everything you can to help these families?
Join me in demanding the renewal of these critical benefits.
We’re not there yet. And we all know the GOP-controlled House’s track record. That’s why it is so important that you add your voice and tell everyone you know to do the same.
We can’t sit back and do nothing while Republicans let people suffer.
Tell Republicans to renew unemployment insurance right away.
We can have healthy disagreements, but allowing people to fall through the cracks is something entirely different. This goes too far.
Thank you for speaking out,
Kirsten [Gillibrand]