Tell Your Senator to Oppose Attacks on PA Unemployed Workers

In Pennsylvania, the unemployed and their families are under attack.

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) Fund in Pennsylvania is insolvent, and has been for several years. Because of insolvency employers have borrowed more than $3.5 billion dollars from the federal government to ensure that those individuals harmed the most in this recession – the unemployed – are able to receive their insurance benefits.

Now, when the bill is due, employers want a billion dollar bailout and long-term tax breaks. Big businesses and corporations are not taking responsibility for the crisis they caused; instead they want the unemployed to pay for the problem they created, by annually cutting 48,000 unemployed workers from being eligible to receive unemployment insurance. When workers bills are due, we don’t get discounts and bailouts. We are expected to pay WITH INTEREST.

It’s time for Pennsylvania legislators to start taking care of workers and not keep expecting them to pay for business tax cuts and bailouts.

Please send an email to your Senator and ask him/her to oppose these cuts by filling out your information below.