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Workers want to go back to work but can’t because their industries remain closed due to the pandemic. Congress must #extendUI until it’s safe for workers to return. #Savethe600
.@EconomicPolicy: extending the $600 UI benefits through mid 2021 would provide an average quarterly boost of 3.7% to the GDP. #ExtendUI #SaveThe600 https://www.epi.org/blog/cutting-off-the-600-boost-to-unemployment-benefits-would-be-both-cruel-and-bad-economics-new-personal-income-data-show-just-how-steep-the-coming-fiscal-cliff-will-be/
Millions of jobs have been permanently lost, and it's still not safe to send people back to work.
The CARES Act’s emergency unemployment benefits boost was saving lives. Watch @IndivarD explain 👇🏾
#Congress must #ExtendUI. #WeAreTheEconomy
My family is one of them https://twitter.com/Groundwork/status/1290710341387599873
Millions of families were relying on the $600/wk unemployment boost to keep:
🍅 food on the table
🏡 a roof over their heads
💡 the lights turned on
💸 money into our economy
There's no reason for families & workers to suffer through this. Congress must #ExtendUI & #Savethe600
Millions of families were relying on the $600/wk unemployment boost to keep:
🍅 food on the table
🏡 a roof over their heads
💡 the lights turned on
💸 money into our economy
There's no reason for families & workers to suffer through this. Congress must #ExtendUI & #Savethe600
New polling from @TIMESUPNOW shows Black and Latinx women are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis.
As @jenkleindc says, "This moment [is] a tipping point that...demands big structural changes [and] makes them possible.''
Read more in @USATODAY:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/07/30/covid-19-latinas-and-black-womens-pay-gap-magnifies-struggle/5517799002/
Our new analysis finds that in 2019, 56% of those living in poverty were women. That's 21.4 million women.
In 2020, the #COVID19 pandemic is further exacerbating economic insecurity among women and their families.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/08/03/488536/basic-facts-women-poverty/
American families will lose over $10 billion each week, including over $70 million in Kentucky, $508 million in Texas, and $936 million in Pennsylvania, until the Senate approves an extension of federal unemployment benefits. Congress must #ExtendUI.
https://tcf.org/content/about-tcf/heals-act-would-strip-90-billion-in-unemployment-payments-crush-25-million-jobless-families/
A Yale study found no evidence that the $600 weekly unemployment benefit has led people to work less, and it's not the only study.
Bottom line: There's no reason to leave millions of unemployed people without a lifeline. #ExtendUI #Savethe600
https://www.businessinsider.com/600-unemployment-bonus-payments-dont-cause-less-work-yale-2020-7?fbclid=IwAR0mjXQNBtc4hYtIhU32JaMRHdFr92T15rJDjcYmQxkq_fqvqQuwbIkRezw
30,000,000 Americans just lost extra unemployment benefits, and the economy is already in freefall.
What happens when the money stops?
We’re about to find out.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/cfb2szFlVmpZWFlOR3FyS0x8MXlvS01YcmxlV254UW_Xd4CvoLdCc1V0I3MtMLpamlGCVKlzRA8hoYX6paik
"In the middle of the greatest health and economic crises in generations, millions of Americans have found themselves impoverished and disconnected from medical care."
It didn't have to be this bad.
🚨🚨Here’s the big piece I’ve been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the US’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. It’s a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness & unheeded warning, every festering wound & reopened scar. 1/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/
OUR PRINCIPLES
We believe that taking action under these guiding principles will benefit all of us.
IF PEOPLE AREN’T DOING WELL, THE ECONOMY ISN’T DOING WELL
THERE IS NO SINGLE SOLUTION
RACE AND GENDER ARE CENTRAL
The Groundwork Collaborative’s mission is to advance an economic vision for strong, broadly shared prosperity and true opportunity for all.
Want to Get Involved?
We are always looking for new partners as we work to build and advance real prosperity and opportunity for all. Contact us if you’re interested in learning more.