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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 14, 2011
Recognizes the necessity and urgency of job creation.
Supports: (1) targeting federal programs to communities most in need; (2) extending the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program and the Extended Benefits unemployment benefits programs; (3) giving those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits an additional 14 weeks of benefits; (4) expanding on-the-job training for unemployed workers; (5) investing in education at all levels; and (6) investing in improving and modernizing the nation's infrastructure, including the rebuilding of bridges, roads, schools, and other crumbling infrastructure.
Encourages: (1) the restoration of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Contingency Fund; (2) the development and implementation of various corps programs and services in the communities, including health care corps, public safety corps, community corps, and teacher corps; and (3) the expansion of Workforce Investment Act programs aimed at youth.
People & committees
Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9] · D–CA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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