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It's Time for Congress to Focus on Jobs!	Take Action!
America's workforce is one of our country's greatest assets and could help us stave off a "double-dip" recession. Yet despite the more than 14 million Americans who can't find a job, Congress has not enacted any serious jobs legislation. In fact, they've already cut more than $1 billion in funding for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), career and technical education, and other programs in this fiscal year, and deeper cuts are already on the table for Fiscal Year 2012. Federal employment and job training programs give Americans the education and training they need to get back to work, to help support their families, and to help stabilize and strengthen our country’s economy. Women in particular benefit from job training programs; because of the numerous barriers preventing their involvement in nontraditional occupations such as construction and information technology, training programs help provide women access to a broader range of potential employment. Now is not the time to be cutting funding for critical job training programs. Take Action! Join AAUW in telling your members of Congress that it's time to stop equivocating and wasting time: Americans need jobs and job training now! You can send a message by clicking the "Take Action" link or visiting AAUW's Two Minute Activist. Remember: You can always help strengthen AAUW's efforts to strengthen women's economic security by making a tax-deductible donation to AAUW’s Public Policy Fund! Double your impact! Tweet, Facebook, and forward this action alert to friends and family. Follow AAUW on Twitter, and read our award-winning AAUW Dialog Blog for discussion, information, and advocacy for women and girls! General AAUW questions? Please contact connect@aauw.org or call 800/326-2289 between 10 am and 5 pm Eastern, Monday through Friday.