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Pelosi Statement on Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Report

Statement

Date: May 21, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Health and Health Care

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement after the weekly initial unemployment claims report showed that 2.4 million more Americans filed for unemployment last week, bringing the nine-week total to 38.6 million Americans:

"Nearly 40 million Americans have now lost their jobs due to coronavirus, yet Leader McConnell tells them to just "take a pause.'

"Last week, the House passed The Heroes Act: honoring our heroic frontline workers with robust funding for state, local, tribal and territorial entities; funding a science-based path to safely opening the economy with testing, tracing, treatment and isolation; and putting more money in the pockets of workers including with vastly strengthened Unemployment Insurance.

"Instead of telling laid-off workers to pause, Leader McConnell and the Senate GOP need to come to the negotiating table to help deliver the relief to protect lives and livelihoods."


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