When you get your unemployment, please do two things:
- Call up your congressional district office and tell your elected representative to push to EXTEND the enhanced unemployment beyond July. It will be necessary to extend this program based on the way things seem to be going (the Friday jobs report was a disaster, the worst since the Great Depression).
and
- Help the less fortunate in the Chicago area, especially those who were not as lucky as the rest of us and were not able to get into the IDES unemployment system to collect benefits promptly (like perhaps the self-employed, for whom the system was not set up to accomodate, or those who gave up applying due to not understanding the system and not being able to get through by phone).
PLEASE DONATE:
https://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/get-involved/
Thank you in advance on behalf of those who could use some "Audacity of Hope" (the title of Barack Obama's famous book) right now!