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I'm sending you this note because I just sent a letter to Congress asking them to support families on Main Street by extending the federal unemployment insurance program before it runs out at the end of December.

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This Thanksgiving, let's raise our voices for families who are working hard to find good jobs!

Already nearly one in four children lives in a family that struggles to put food on the table. This is a national emergency! And if Congress doesn't renew the federal unemployment insurance program by December 31st, millions more families will be pushed into poverty!

Tell Congress it's time to prioritize children and families who are struggling, not just greedy corporations, and to renew the federal unemployment insurance program!

To the Leaders and Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives:

Your action is urgently needed to reauthorize the full federal unemployment insurance program through 2012 before it expires December 31st.  Unless you act to renew federal unemployment insurance, nearly 2 million hardworking Americans will be cut off in the month of January alone.  Millions more would have this critical lifeline cut off in ensuing months – over 6 million would lose these benefits during 2012.

These are Americans who haven’t chosen to become unemployed – they’ve been laid off and desperately want to get back to work.  But they now face the worst job market since the Great Depression.
Of the 14 million Americans who are unemployed, 46 percent -- more than 6 million -- have been jobless and looking for work for six months or longer.  The average duration of unemployment has been more than six months for over two years, and the average job search for an unemployed worker now lasts more than 9 months.  Today, the unemployment rate stands at 9.1 percent and has been above 8.5 percent for more than 31 months. Congress has never cut back on federally funded unemployment insurance when unemployment was anywhere near this high for this long.

In the last three years, federal unemployment insurance has helped more than 17 million unemployed Americans when they’ve had to look for new work for more than six months.

Now is not the time to let these programs lapse or expire.  It would be unthinkable for Congress to cut-off this vital lifeline for so many hardworking Americans who are struggling to find work when jobs are so scarce.  Allowing unemployment insurance to expire would have devastating consequences for millions of jobless workers and their families – and it would deal a severe blow to the economy and to communities across the country.

Congress must act now to renew federal unemployment insurance through 2012, and take additional steps to help businesses avert layoffs, create good jobs and get real help to long-term unemployed workers including those who have exhausted unemployment benefits.

We call on the Leaders and Members of Congress from both parties to put partisanship aside and make the right choice for America’s families and our economy:  Renew Unemployment Insurance Now!

Signed,

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