Contact Senators Klobuchar and Franken Today:

Urge them to make sure emergency safety net funds continue another year

The United States Senate has one last chance to extend emergency safety net money that was part of the original stimulus bill. But the Senate has to act the week of Aug. 2. With the recession long from over, Minnesota families need those funds to continue. The safety net funds – called “emergency TANF funds” – have brought more than $90 million into Minnesota to:

• create short-term jobs for unemployed parents;
• fund emergency assistance to help families catch up on rent and utility payments so they don’t end up homeless;
• get summer meals to thousands of children through 127 food shelves;
• create summer jobs for low income teens.

E-mail Senator Franken and Senator Klobuchar by Aug. 3rd.

The message: The recession is not over. People are still hurting. We still need a safety net. Make sure the emergency TANF funds are available for another year.

Open your e-mail with a sentence about why this is important to you. The more personal your message, the more powerful it is.  In the subject line put “emergency TANF funds”:

• Click on this link to e-mail Sen.Franken: http://franken.senate.gov/?p=email_al
• Click on this link to e-mail Sen. Klobuchar: http://klobuchar.senate.gov/emailamy.cfm?contactForm=emailamy&submit=Go

Thank you – it will be an important three minutes you spend.