We Need a Real Jobs Bill

Congress is a big FAIL on jobs and unemployment. The Senate is heading home instead of helping the unemployed, the House is FAILing on jobs unemployment and COBRA subsidies.

Congress says they are worried about the deficit, but the deficit was The Plan. It is right in front of your faces: more »

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Even though House Democrats have cut back on the size of a jobs and tax extenders bill Thursday night, the legislation is still facing uncertainty in both the House and the Senate at this hour. Congress Daily reports that the Blue Dog coalition of conservative Democrats are saying "no" to even the meager deal that the Democratic leadership hammered out. more »

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Some say that "government can't create jobs." Others respond "unemployed people can't create votes." Meanwhile, conservatives, whose policies put so many people out of work, now say unemployed people are lazy and should not be collecting unemployment benefits. more »

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Those were the words of people who have always worked, still want to work, and have worked hard at finding work -- without success. Whether they were recently unemployed, long-term unemployed, or facing layoffs, none of resembled the caricatures and stereotypes conservatives have used to portrayed jobless Americans as shiftless hand-out seekers, too lazy to look for jobs they would surely find if the only tried. They are hard-working Americans looking for a chance to contribute to their skills and efforts to a country that desperately needs them, doesn't appear to know, and may be in the process of abandoning them.

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The Senate is starting debate this week on a $60 billion supplemental spending bill that includes additional money for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as money for disaster relief and some other spending choices. more »

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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor today reiterated the claim that "uncertainty" created by the work Democratic congressional leaders are doing to clean up the mess left by conservative economic policies is responsible for the anemic state of the economic recovery and lack of job creation more »

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Americans are angry. Wall Street has been bailed out, and there's no sign of job growth on Main Street. We know this is important because Sarah Palin's poll-tested tea party speech featured it.

We know it's important because that was the clear message of Massachusetts. more »

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Click here to tell your Senators: Pass a Real Jobs Bill Now.

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To be thrown out of work is a crushing blow. Homes are lost. Families split. Children are terrified. Hopes are dashed. Today, nearly one in five American workers is without a job or scraping by on whatever part-time, short-term work there is.

We need a real jobs bill now, and a strategy that commits our government to revitalizing America's economic foundation, built around a commitment to full employment.

Tell the Senate: We need action on jobs NOW!

Last night, in his State of the Union address, President Obama pressed the Senate to act boldly on jobs. Now it's up to us to keep the pressure on, by making sure the voices of the jobless are heard.

Campaign for America's Future is sending out this call to every American who needs a job, and to every American who has a friend or relative suffering in this Great Recession.

Last month, the House passed a jobs bill that was a first step towards what is needed. Now the Senate is reportedly cutting that in half, and weakening it further. This makes no sense.

But last night, President Obama demanded the Senate pass the House bill now.

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