Unemployment is the worst since the Great Depression. Pause guest worker programs.
Unemployment has reached levels not seen since the Great Depression and is disproportionately affecting members of society that are already living paycheck-to-paycheck including Hispanics and African Americans, according to the Washington Post. The article reports on the staggering impact the coronavirus has had on the economy:
"The jobless rate was pushed higher because 20.5 million people lost their jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday, wiping out a decade of job gains in a single month. The staggering losses are roughly double what the nation experienced during the 2007-09 crisis, which used to be described as the harshest economic contraction most people ever endured. Now that has been quickly dwarfed by the fallout from the global pandemic."
Congress must act now to end guest worker programs to help these unemployed Americans.
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Please send this message to your Democratic member(s) of Congress. Ask them to support pausing guest worker programs.
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