Chicago Jobs with Justice

Chicago Jobs with Justice is organizing the Emergency Campaign for Jobs in conjunction with our national JwJ network and the AFL-CIO.

Here's what we are demanding:

1. Immediate extension and expansion of access to jobless benefits for the duration of this unemployment crisis (including COBRA or Medicaid and food assistance.)

2. Immediate federal financial assistance to states like Illinois to prevent further layoffs and service cuts, precisely when the need is the greatest in our communities.

3. Federal spending on direct job creation for improving and enhancing our public infrastructure: mass transit, schools, roads and more.

4. Federal investment in green technology, manufacturing and energy conservation.

5. Paying for it all by taxing the individuals and practices on Wall Street that created this recession so we can begin to balance the books, place the tax burden where it belongs and discourage reckless and excessive speculation.
Over the next few months, we will be promoting actions that highlight the need for massive job creation as quickly as possible.

What's next? I need your help to organize our brothers and sisters who are unemployed! Sound interesting? Give me a call at (312) 738-6161 or send an email to susanh@jwj.org!