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Published: November 26, 2008 09:40 am    print this story   email this story  

Be aware of what's aware before Congress

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Please be aware of key legislation that has huge ramifications for us all. Congress will return to Washington this week for a lame duck session. The Senate has failed to pass legislation to help millions of unemployed workers whose benefits are about to run out.

Congress has two pieces of legislation to consider: a bill to increase unemployment insurance, and a bill that includes a temporary increase in medical assistance to states (FMAP), and increases in food stamp benefits and unemployment insurance.

As a not-for-profit provider of health and human services, Lutheran Services for the Aging asks that the Senate pass comprehensive legislation to help the people who are suffering the most as a result of the economic downturn.

We are seeing desperate families who can’t afford or manage to keep their loved ones at home, and clients concerned they will lose vital health care services.

In October, the unemployment rate jumped to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent. Of 10.1 million Americans jobless and looking for work, 2.2 million have been out of work six months or more — the largest number in 25 years. North Carolinians are suffering an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent.

Economists tell us that:

1. From now until January, people will face basic losses: jobs, homes, food, and health care. As always, people with the lowest incomes will face the most serious threats.

2. We must: rebuild our infrastructure; prevent state cuts; create needed jobs; and prevent the loss of homes now to lessen the effects of the recession.

To read more about the essential components of an effective recovery package visit Towards Shared Recovery - http://www.chn.org/pdf/2008/sharedrecovery103108.pdf.

We are called to love our neighbor as ourselves. Call on our senators and other elected officials to support unemployment insurance and a temporary increase in state funding to support our less fortunate neighbors.

Ted W. Goins Jr.,

president

Lutheran Services for the Aging, Inc.

Salisbury

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