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Email from Coalition on Human Needs:
Lipstick and pigs are not the biggest issues facing the country right now.
Unemployment is up.
Millions are struggling to pay for food, gas, and housing.
Heating costs will rise 40 percent this winter, and many households just don’t know how they can possibly manage.
Congress must not go home
without passing an economic recovery package!
Call your Rep. and Senators on Wednesday, September 17 to tell them they must act now!
Use this toll-free number: 1-888-245-0215
Tell them: Please do not leave this month without passing an economic recovery package that helps low-income people avoid hardships, helps the jobless, maintains needed public services, and boosts the economy.
Wednesday September 17 is the best day to call. But you can call any day that week - Sept. 15-19. You’ll be connected to the Capitol Switchboard - please call three times to be connected to your Rep. and to your 2 Senators.
Background: The House leadership is expected to bring up a recovery bill soon. If constituents are heard from, Reps. and Senators will not just talk about doing something - they will take action. If they do not hear from you, they will leave millions of Americans without enough to pay for food and fuel, with no more unemployment insurance and no help in sight.
Advocates have been urging more funds for food and home energy assistance, additional weeks of unemployment benefits, more aid to states for rising Medicaid costs and to keep collecting child support owed to millions of children, more funds for Head Start, and more jobs through infrastructure repair and jobs programs for youth. For explanation of these proposals, see Towards Shared Recovery, at http://www.chn.org/pdf/2008/stimulus9908.pdf Mention some or all of these important items when you call.
We know making these calls is not your favorite thing to do. But Congress needs to know we’re tired of diversions - we need action to turn the economy around and protect people.
Many thanks - please forward this to everyone you can think of.
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