From The Huffington Post: Following the government’s critical role in preparing for and responding to Hurricane Irene, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington published a piece on our government’s urgent need to tackle the jobs crisis with the same urgency and cooperation as it confronted Hurricane Irene.
Excerpt from the article:
What Irene and the response to it showed is that when the media devote wall-to-wall attention to something, and government officials bring a sense of urgency and ask the public to respond in kind, remarkable things can happen. What this weekend demonstrated is that even though we can’t do anything to stop the hurricane, with resolve and collective action we can greatly mitigate its destructive impact. Clearly, that capacity is always there. The question is: why do we only tap into it for natural disasters and external attacks?
The fact is we have another crisis that’s been hovering over the entire United States for almost three years now and shows no signs of blowing over. The numbers should be just as scary as the ones that have dominated our national conversation about Irene:
Right now, there are over 25 million Americans unemployed or underemployed.
The number who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more is over 6 million.
The average duration of unemployment now stands at over 40 weeks, the highest since the financial crisis began.
With the toll that the job crisis is taking on the lives of millions of people in this country — from college graduates who can’t get jobs to middle class families being thrown out of their homes — this is a Category 5 disaster.
Read the full story in The Huffington Post. To learn more about Chris’ work to create jobs in Delaware, click here.