IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 442 
Recognizing the necessity and urgency of job creation, extending unemploy-
ment assistance, expanding education and job training programs, and 
investing in improving and modifying the Nation’s infrastructure. 
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 Infrastruc-
ture, 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 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the necessity and urgency of job creation, ex-
tending 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 Bu-
reau 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 na-
tional average but still unacceptably high at 7.1 percent; 
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•HRES 442 IH 
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 pov-
erty 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 mil-
lion 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 ori-
gin, and in 2010, the poverty rate for White, non-His-
panics was 9.9 percent, for African-Americans, 27.4 per-
cent, 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 im-
prove 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 Pub-
lic 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; 
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(3) supports the extension of the Emergency 
Unemployment Compensation program and the Ex-
tended Benefits unemployment benefits programs; 
(4) supports giving those people who have ex-
hausted their unemployment benefits an additional 
14 weeks of benefits; 
(5) encourages the restoration of the Tem-
porary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency 
Contingency Fund; 
(6) encourages the development and implemen-
tation of various corps similar to those implemented 
through the Work Projects Administration, the Pub-
lic Land Corps, and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 
aimed at the programs and services needed in com-
munities 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 train-
ing 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; 
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(9) supports the direct investment in education 
at all levels, including pre-school, elementary, and 
secondary education as well as higher education, in-
cluding the expansion of work study programs, after 
school programs, and other programs aimed at im-
proving the education of all youth and young people 
to maintain the Nation’s competitiveness in the glob-
al knowledge economy and to ensure that all stu-
dents, 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 im-
provement and modernization of the Nation’s infra-
structure, including the rebuilding of bridges, roads, 
schools, and other crumbling infrastructure across 
the Nation. 
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