Editor,
Today’s political cartoon on the rising unemployment rate was spot on. The national unemployment rate just reached a staggering 10.2 percent. This is the first time in 26 years that it has been over 10 percent.
Right now our economy is hurting, especially in New Mexico. We need Congress to act to pass a clean energy jobs plan. The House of Representatives passed a plan in June that will benefit low-income Americans in particular. The clean energy jobs plan will fight poverty and help raise living standards right here in Albuquerque. One study estimates that energy efficiency alone will create over 4,000 new jobs in New Mexico, slash the unemployment rate and reduce household living costs. This plan will help some of those hardest hit by the economic collapse, slash pollution and start rebuilding our economy.
The Senate is going to take up this plan in the fall and it’s vitally important for both our environment and our economy that Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall support this clean energy bill.
Kim McMurray
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