Email Your Senators-Extend Unemployment & Health Care Benefits

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 Extend Unemployment & Health Care Benefits

  On Tuesday President Obama signed the historic health care reform bill. David Leonhardt wrote <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OIyxEYwUOFKDiNpKyfRLSobrghIjwO9H>  in the New York Times, "The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago." 

 Yet we still face massive long-term unemployment, and once again unemployed workers face the loss of their lifeline for survival. The February stop-gap measure <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FzJImlYgreXg2adhcyBxDIbrghIjwO9H>  of federal extensions of unemployment insurance and subsidies for COBRA health care are set to expire on April 5 unless the Senate acts this week. Most Republicans and Democrats agree this extension is needed. But the Senate will spend this entire week debating additional health care measures passed by the House, and then go on a two-week recess. The Senate must pass the extension by unanimous consent now, or it won't get to a vote until after workers have lost their benefits.

 Click here <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eyeACDDyze7S%2BIXetyrc4obrghIjwO9H>  to take action now!