[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 442 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 442

   Recognizing the necessity and urgency of job creation, extending 
unemployment assistance, expanding education and job training programs, 
 and investing in improving and modifying the Nation's infrastructure.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 14, 2011

  Ms. Lee of California submitted the following resolution; which was 
   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

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Recognizing the necessity and urgency of job creation, extending 
unemployment assistance, expanding education and job training programs, 
 and investing in improving and modifying the Nation's infrastructure.

Whereas, as of September, 2011, the average unemployment rate for the Nation is 
        9.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics;
Whereas, according to the same report, some populations are experiencing higher 
        rates of unemployment, 16 percent for African-Americans and 11.3 percent 
        for Hispanics, while others including Asian Americans are below the 
        national average but still unacceptably high at 7.1 percent;
Whereas, according to a report by the Census Bureau entitled Income, Poverty, 
        and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010, 2.6 million 
        Americans fell into poverty in 2010, which is 7,118 people falling into 
        poverty each day during that year;
Whereas the Census Bureau revealed that a total of 46.2 million Americans lived 
        in poverty in 2010, up from 43.6 million Americans living in poverty in 
        2009;
Whereas the rates of poverty vary by race and Hispanic origin, and in 2010, the 
        poverty rate for White, non-Hispanics was 9.9 percent, for African-
        Americans, 27.4 percent, for Hispanics, 26.6 percent, and for Asians, 
        12.1 percent; and
Whereas, with 15.1 percent of Americans living in poverty and 9.1 percent of 
        Americans unemployed, the focus of the Government should be on job 
        creation, which will improve the Nation's economy and give people 
        pathways to out of poverty: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the necessity and urgency of job creation 
        and supports the passage of the American Jobs Act;
            (2) supports targeting Federal programs to communities most 
        in need, including the use of Public Micro Data Areas (which 
        are geographic areas designated by the Census Bureau) to target 
        the communities with the highest unemployment rates and highest 
        poverty rates;
            (3) supports the extension of the Emergency Unemployment 
        Compensation program and the Extended Benefits unemployment 
        benefits programs;
            (4) supports giving those people who have exhausted their 
        unemployment benefits an additional 14 weeks of benefits;
            (5) encourages the restoration of the Temporary Assistance 
        for Needy Families Emergency Contingency Fund;
            (6) encourages the development and implementation of 
        various corps similar to those implemented through the Work 
        Projects Administration, the Public Land Corps, and the 
        Civilian Conservation Corps, aimed at the programs and services 
        needed in communities across the Nation, including health care 
        corps, public safety corps, community corps, and teacher corps;
            (7) encourages the expansion of the Workforce Investment 
        Act programs aimed at youth;
            (8) supports the expansion of on-the-job training for 
        unemployed workers, including those who are long-term 
        unemployed and those who have exhausted their unemployment 
        benefits, to refresh their job skills and ease their re-entry 
        into the workforce;
            (9) supports the direct investment in education at all 
        levels, including pre-school, elementary, and secondary 
        education as well as higher education, including the expansion 
        of work study programs, after school programs, and other 
        programs aimed at improving the education of all youth and 
        young people to maintain the Nation's competitiveness in the 
        global knowledge economy and to ensure that all students, 
        regardless of socioeconomic status, are able to further their 
        education and craft their future equally and fairly; and
            (10) supports the direct investment in the improvement and 
        modernization of the Nation's infrastructure, including the 
        rebuilding of bridges, roads, schools, and other crumbling 
        infrastructure across the Nation.
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