Unemployed Worker Website Re-Launched

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The National Employment Law Project has re-launched its website. Designed to provide information to workers and their advocates "who are struggling to navigate today's tough economic times and to provide a voice for the unemployed in Washington," the website first went live 5 years ago. "With the job market continuing to take a turn for the worse, NELP has updated the materials on the website," reports NELP’s Federal Advocacy Coordinator Judy Conti , "with updates on the debate over extended unemployment benefits and statistics and reports on the unemployment situation." NELP has also retooled Unemployment Talk, the worker forum on the site. "The voices of the unemployed are critical to winning better policies for the unemployed," Conti told UNION CITY. "Too often Congress and the media view the unemployed as just a statistic or say that we can afford to wait until the economy gets even worse to take action. NELP hopes to help change that dynamic by enabling the unemployed to tell their own stories to the media and by keeping you updated on activities in Congress and tell you the key times to contact your Senator or House representative."