Tell Congress to halt guestworker programs. Unemployment worst since depression!
Alert date:
8 May 2020
Alert body:
A May 8 Washington Post article states:
U.S. unemployment rate soars to 14.7 percent, the worst since the Depression era - 20.5 million people lost their jobs in April, the Labor Department said Friday. Many analysts believe it could take years to recover:
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.
NumbersUSA has an action alert out requesting that people contact their members of Congress to insist that guestworker programs be halted:
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....
Congress must act now to end guest worker programs to help these unemployed Americans.
Please go to NumbersUSA.com and sign up if you have not already done so. Then quickly send a message to Congress.