Unemployment Insurance on the Chopping Block

Unemployment Insurance on the Chopping Block

Millions of hardworking Americans will be cut off from the emergency lifeline of federal unemployment insurance, unless Congress acts to fully renew the program before it expires at the end of February.

Congress has never cut back or allowed these programs to expire when unemployment was anywhere near this high for this long.

Yet, as a Congressional conference committee takes it up, House Republicans have pushed for drastic benefit cuts and harsh new requirements—slashing federal unemployment insurance by more than half in the highest unemployment states, and stigmatizing jobless workers with mandatory drug testing.

Their plan would erect harmful new barriers to benefits, making it harder for ordinary Americans to access their unemployment insurance—and force an early cut-off of UI for nearly 3 million Americans this year.

Please call your Members of Congress toll-free at 1-888-245-3381—and tell them to reject cuts and harsh barriers to unemployment insurance benefits—by fully renewing unemployment insurance through 2012.

Or, click here to use the click-to-call tool at www.UnemployedWorkers.org.

And email Congress to extend unemployment benefits for a full year—with no strings attached, no barriers to benefits and no brutal humiliation.