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Support the long-term unemployed as they search for decent work

January 08, 2014
by Blue
Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Catholic, Pennsylvania Catholic network, Unemployment
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Over one million jobless Americans lost a vital source of support at the end of 2013 when Congress failed to extend the Emergency Unemployment program.

Unless Congress extends emergency unemployment, millions more will lose this financial lifeline over the course of the year. Call your Senators and Representative and ask them to protect extend this vital assistance.

Blessed John Paul II, in Laborem Exercens, called unemployment an evil and said during times of economic pain and high unemployment, there is a moral obligation to ensure unemployed workers and their families have a basic level of security.

Read more and send your message here.

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