From: Rochelle SevierTitle of Hearing: Improving Efforts to Help Unemployed Americans Find Jobs Dear Congressman Geoff Davis (R-KY),Thank you for conducting the Hearing for Improving Efforts to Help Unemployed Americans Find Jobs.I was laid off in October 2008 and ...
The National Partnership for Women & Families submits this written statement on the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on older women. The National Partnership is a non-profit, non-partisan consumer organization with 40 years of experience working to make life better for women and families by promoting access to quality health care, fairness in the workplace, and policies that ...
Jobs Committee February 7, 2011I have been out of work for 99 weeks. Therefore I am a “99er”. What does this mean? It means that due to no fault of my own, I have not been able to find a job.My skill set is a graphic designer. I have a BFA and two certificates: one is Desktop ...
HEALTH REFORM LAW BENEFITSLOW INCOME OLDER ADULTS The National Senior Citizens Law Center continues to support full enactment of the Affordable Care Act based on what the law does to make health care for low income older adults more accessible, affordable and of higher ...
Chairman Camp and Ranking Member Levin and other Members of the Committee, we thank you for holding this important hearing to examine the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) impact on the Medicare program and its beneficiaries. The Roundtable on Critical Care Policy supports the Committee’s commitment to ensuring that the reforms authorized by PPACA will be ...
I’m a single mother and have always been a single mother except for the first year of my son’s life. I have always had a job and supported my son, but sometimes shared rent with family and friends for many of his first years. I finally got my own place while I was in my late 20’s. A place that I could afford on my own…..a trailer in a trailer park. It isn’t the perfect ...
To: House Ways and Means Committee Hearing for Jobs for Unemployed You have no idea how hard it is to have been laid off for over 3 years. My most recent experience has been in social services and there are no jobs. These jobs depend upon excess money in the economy and charitable contributions. Obviously, ...
Chairman Camp,Americans want to work. The current political bantering is unacceptable and unproductive. Trickle down does not and never did work. History bears this out. We are facing actual (U6) unemployment number of well over 16%. No one disputes this. Yet, the heartless millionaire conservatives would allow decent hard working ...
Scott Carlson Title Hearing: Tell a Compelling story. Dear Committee, I had a job that was ok, I was making money even though it was not much, it was steady and I had it for 6 years.Then all of a sudden about 3 years ago, it was gone! I ...