U-Cubed "March to Madness" Deadline: March 18th 2011

The U-Cubed "March to Madness" Deadline of March 18th 2011 is rapidly approaching.

U-Cubed or Union for the Unemployed is a solidly backed activist organization specifically designed to give Jobless Americans the type of organized unity and strength in numbers that has an impact on Washington DC, lobbying for badly needed JOBS and UI Benefits.

A site wide communiqué released by Executive Director Rick Sloan Friday read:

Dear UCubed Leaders & Activists:

New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reveal the states with the top unemployment rates: Nevada, California, Florida, Rhode Island, Michigan and South Carolina.

Today’s state and local jobless report serves as further proof that state governments and Congress must focus less on destroying good-paying jobs and more on putting jobless residents back to work.

America’s jobless, along with the rest of the country, have for the past few weeks watched the assault Republican governments in Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri and other states are afflicting on hard-working Americans. They can’t help but wonder: How does this put me back to work?

It doesn’t.

Not only will it ultimately send more hard-working folks to the unemployment line, it’s also part of the GOP’s larger strategy to completely ignore and distract from the more pressing issue affecting our country at this time – jobs.

As many of you know, in college sports circles the month of March is affectionately known as March Madness. A fitting description in my opinion to the current situation plaguing the jobless.

I’m not the only one.

“Washington is afflicted with its own version of March Madness, and we're not talking college basketball,” wrote the President of the Institute for America’s Future in a recent op-ed. “Call it a severe case of attention disorder.

Washington has forgotten that 25 million Americans remain in need of full-time work -- a human calamity and national emergency.”

In the spirit of March Madness, UCubed has created its own set of brackets – for the unemployed.

Do you know how your hometown stacks up? Fill out the “Marching to Madness” unemployment brackets and rank the city you think is suffering the most. On Friday, March 18th 2011, UCubed will fill in the brackets with actual rankings from the BLS.

We’re predicting a lot more “upsets” in this tourney – between 25 to 29 million to be exact.

The jobless want to go back to work. And they want to go back today. The time to create a national jobs agenda is now.

It’s time Congress starts creating jobs!

Show your support for the unemployed by clicking “Like” on UCubed's page on Facebook!

In Unity – Strength,

If you are not yet engaged in U-Cubed Please DO SO TODAY:

U-Cubed on:

FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/ucubed

TWITTER: @U_Cubed

WEBSITE: http://www.unionofunemployed.com

If you have not yet joined U-C

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