Senate regressives blocking unemployment benefit extension

From the Daily Kos:

Join Daily Kos and U.S. Senator Cory Booker in urging the U.S. Senate to stop blocking the restoration of emergency unemployment benefits—which they did again this afternoon by one vote. Click here to sign.

Every week, 70,000 Americans lose their unemployment insurance—because Congress let emergency benefits expire in December.

Every week, that’s tens of thousands more families giving up medications, missing rent and mortgage payments or unable to find the money to put gas in their car to get to a job interview.

Freshman Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)—in his first speech on the Senate floor—advocated for a bill to restore these benefits, and has asked Daily Kos for our help.

Join Daily Kos and Senator Cory Booker in urging the U.S. Senate to stop blocking the restoration of emergency unemployment benefits.

Keep fighting,
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos