Testimony Highlights Need to Fight Unemployment

Christine Owens, Executive Director of the National Employment Law Project, testified on October 29, 2008 before the House Committee on Ways and Means on the need for economic recovery. Owens emphasized the worsening unemployment crisis, and urged the President and Congress to act quickly to extend unemployment benefits and modernize the unemployment insurance system.

Read the full testimony.

Read more on unemployment from the National Employment Law Project.

Read the press release from the National Employment Law Project, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Half in Ten on the September unemployment figures.