Pelosi Slams Senate Republicans For Letting Jobs-Creation Program Expire

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Lucia Graves


TANF Emergency Fund: Pelosi Slams Senate Republicans For Letting Jobs-Creation Program Expire

First Posted: 09- 3-10 02:48 PM | Updated: 09- 3-10 04:39 PM


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Senate Republicans Thursday for failing to reauthorize funding for a subsidized jobs program that has created 240,000 jobs in 37 states.

The federal wage subsidy will expire Sept. 30 unless Congress extends the program by ponying up another $2.5 billion.

"It's been as positive an initiative for job creation as you can make," Pelosi told reporters after a speech at San Francisco State University Thursday. "Unfortunately -- you'll hear me say this many times -- we have passed it over and over again in the House, waiting for some action from the Senate."

The Emergency Fund was created by the stimulus to assist states with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs. A House approved bill that would have reauthorized the funds was shot down in May with Senate Republicans citing deficit concerns.

Pelosi said that unless Congress extends the funds, national unemployment will rise, and she noted that 3,500 people in her hometown of San Francisco will lose their jobs. In Los Angeles, where the program is especially large, as many as 10,000 jobs are on the line. And in the state of Illinois, 20,000 jobs could be at stake.

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[RandomThoughts]

1. Every person unemployed is one more person the rich will not be able to control.

If the system is not changed, then huge unemployment will change it.


Not to make people more scared, like the rich want, fear is being removed, but to make them bold in correcting the issues.

[babylonsister]

2. So explain those who are unemployed supporting rethugs, who

have obstructed on every single issue important to unemployed people? I don't get it at all.

And there is no way only Dems are unemployed; I'm baffled. Or not; might depend on where you get your info from.

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. Teabaggers Are Just Incredibly Stupid! They Are More Angry @ Obama's Skin Color

than they are at their RepubliCON overlords slashing their jobs and / or sending the jobs overseas.

[babylonsister]

4. I'll buy that. How sad though; voting against their own best

interests due solely to ignorance.