Leading Progressive Organizations, Unions to Announce National Economic Campaign

Washington, DC - Amid a worsening economic crisis that has left nearly 2 million Americans without jobs and over 2.5 million more without homes this year, the nation's leading progressive organizations and unions will announce a major national campaign tomorrow, Thursday, December 18th to pass the jobs and economic recovery package being proposed by President Elect Barack Obama and Congressional Leaders. The announcement will be made on a press conference call at 10:30 A.M.

More than 20 leading progressive organizations and unions with millions of members have signed onto run a major campaign to pass a significant jobs and economic recovery package to create millions of jobs and help the economy grow in the near and long term. To date, the following organizations have signed on the Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery Now: AFSCME, SEIU, AFLCIO, NEA, Americans United for Change, USAction, Campaign for America's Future, ACORN, Health Care for America Now, Sierra Club, People for the American Way Foundation, National Women's Law Center, TrueMajority.org, Young Democrats of America, 21st Century Democrats, Community Action Partnership, Institute for Policy Studies - Program on Inequality and the Common Good, Working Group on Extreme Inequality, YWCA USA , Economic Policy Institute, Women Voices, Women Vote and the League of Conservation Voters.

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