Unemployment in the United States is a heart-wrenching problem, with 14.8 million Americans seeking work. [1]

Yet the same U.S. senators who gave trillions to bail out Wall
Street are now offering a paltry $15 billion for a jobs bill that won’t
create many jobs.

What an insult. In effect, senators are telling unemployed Americans that they matter little compared to Wall Street.

Tell your senators to stimulate the economy with a giant green jobs bill for American workers.

With unemployment so high, it’s time for a Green New Deal to tackle economic and ecological problems at the same time.

We should put Americans back to work with living-wage green jobs:
retrofitting homes for energy efficiency, building modern mass transit
systems, installing renewable energy technology, and conserving our
irreplaceable ecosystems.

Instead, the Senate’s current bill fails to offer even a short-term solution to joblessness.

After bailing out Wall Street at a cost of trillions, all that the
Senate Democratic majority will offer 14.8 million unemployed Americans
is a jobs bill that union leaders have called “puny” and “like sticking
a band-aid on an amputated arm”. [2]