Unemployment benefits are set to expire soon. Without those benefits, those families will stop spending. That, in turn, will cost us another 240,000 jobs. So of course the Republicans in the House will do nothing. They hate anything that keeps Americans working.
The president explained, “Just this week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that allowing benefits to expire will be a drag on our economic growth next year. A report by the Department of Labor and my Council of Economic Advisors estimated that it could cost businesses 240,000 jobs.”
The President's Jobs Bill, still filibustered by Republicans in the Senate, never brought up by the Republicans in the House. And yet Republicans have never offered a Jobs bill of their own (after running in 2010 on "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!").
No. The Republicans prefer Americans unemployed at least until they can win the White House. So what if a generation of young Americans never sees gainful employment? The important thing is the party, Americans be damned!
http://www.americanjobsact.com
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