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	"title": "Red Alert Day of Action: Write your members of congress",
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	"description": "*Please note that personal info is used to match your letter to the proper congress representatives.* The entertainment is on RED ALERT! In March, live events, theater, trade shows, and motion picture and television production were completely shut down across the country to slow the spread of COVID-19. Behind the scenes workers want to get back to work in their specialized crafts, but the pandemic has made it unsafe to do so until further notice. The nearly 12 million workers employed by the industry were the first to lose work, and will likely be the last to return. The first round of COVID-19 relief legislation passed in the CARES Act was largely successful in providing a lifeline for these workers, however, many important provisions have since lapsed. Yet, the industry continues to be decimated, and behind-the-scenes workers are going bankrupt and dying. We must act NOW. The September 1st Red Alert Day of Action is all about making our voices heard in the halls of congress and around this country. Will you join us and urge elected officials to pass a comprehensive set of provisions that help protect the people who make American culture happen? What behind-the-scenes workers need: Extend the “CARES” Act’s unemployment insurance provisions for as long as the health crisis persists. #SaveThe600 Preserve workers&#x27; healthcare and ensure that no-one loses their benefits by passing a 100 percent COBRA premium subsidy to keep families insured on their job-based healthcare plan and extend eligibility to 36 months. Ensure the safety of entertainment workers as states allow workplaces to re-open by ordering OSHA to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard that establishes an employer’s responsibility to protect workers from infection. Under current standards no such obligation exists which leaves the door open and put workers and their families at risk. Protect the healthy pension plans and earned pension checks of entertainment workers by allowing multiemployer plans to implement policies that safeguarded pensions after the Great Recession, such as freezing zone status, smoothing investment losses, and doing no harm to healthy pension plans. Provide direct economic support for organizations in the arts, entertainment, and media industries with appropriate workforce restoration requirements to get people back to work when it is safe to do so. Update the Qualified Performing Artist tax deduction, allowing creative professionals to keep more of our hard-earned money by deducting necessary business expenses from their taxes, now due in July. Make sure workers in all states have access to COVID-19 relief by demanding that states ramp up and improve their unemployment claim processing.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/red-alert-day-of-action-write-your-members-of-congress"
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