Hard working families across America are losing their jobs, their health care, their homes and their pensions. They desperately need an economic recovery plan that directly and quickly stimulates the economy -- not a continuation of the failed policies of the past that gave tax cuts to millionaires. The future of our nation’s middle class isn’t a blue issue or red issue -- it’s a jobs issue, plain and simple, and we need more of them fast.

Economists from across the political spectrum agree that in the current environment government investment is going to be most effective at creating jobs.

This past election offered voters a clear choice. Pres. Obama strongly advocated a new direction that would help working families, including creating jobs with direct spending to repair our crumbling infrastructure, producing green jobs while addressing climate change and providing universal healthcare. John McCain advocated more of the Bush policies -- tax cuts and more tax cuts to help those earners at the top and more favors for corporate America.

Voters overwhelmingly chose Obama and voted for policies that will help working people, create jobs and rebuild the middle class. They rejected special favors for moneyed interests and tax breaks for multinational corporations -- and the Senate should too.

It is time for those who are attempting to obstruct real change to step beyond ideology and partisanship and to think about the families and communities that need help now. We call on all of Congress to join Pres. Obama in moving swift economic recovery for our middle class.

Contact:  Eddie Vale 202-637-5018