20,000 Alaskan businesses will have their payroll tax cut in half under the bill.

A typical Alaskan household, with a median income of around $62,000, will receive a tax cut of approximately $1,920.

Immediate investments of at least $219,700,000 in Alaska that could support a

minimum of 2,900 local jobs.

Avoiding layoffs via $70,500,000 in funds to Alaska supporting up to 900 educator &

first responder jobs.

Alaska will receive $62,000,000 in school infrastructure funding, supporting up to 800

jobs.

Alaska can receive roughly $20,000,000 to revitalize and refurbish local communities.

Alaska can receive $2,500,000 for its community colleges, in the next fiscal year alone.

Putting the 8,000 long-term unemployed Alaskans back to work via the bill’s Pathways

Back To Work initiative.

Preventing 5,800 Alaskans looking for work from losing their unemployments benefits

in just the first 6 weeks.

The bill’s Pathways Back to Work Fund can place 300 adults and 700 youths into jobs in

Alaska.

This is just a partial list. Because the stakes are so high for our state, our local communities, our schools, our infrastructure, our small businesses and our families, Alaskan workers converged on the state’s AFL-CIO this Friday to thank Sen. Mark Begich for standing up for our state and to urge Sen. Lisa Murkowski to reconsider her vote to filibuster Alaskan interests.

The filibuster was once a rarely used legislative maneuver used in special circumstances, but today has become a constant, obstructionist partisan tactic that prevents Alaskan interests like the above from even getting a vote in the Senate.

Families in Alaska and across our nation have been devastated by this economy. Many who desperately want to work can’t find jobs. Businesses has been battered because they lack customers with money to spend. Local communities are facing the layoffs among some of our most critical jobs, like first responders and school teachers.

Alaska AFL-CIO President Vince Beltrami explains that the American Jobs Act “reflects longstanding bipartisan priorities” and “should have brought together all Senators of both parties to stem the tide of economic pain that is overwhelming working people.”

AFT President Randi Weingarten, meanwhile, called the Senate’s shirking of its responsibilities to the American people “an outrage,” noting that a group of senators voted against a bill that would put teachers, cops, firefighters and construction workers back to work.

”These are not radical ideas,” Weingarten said. “They are real solutions to get Americans back to work doing the work that needs to be done.”

During her campaign last year, Sen. Murkowski portrayed herself as an independent-minded advocate for Alaska who would put our state ahead of lockstep partisan maneuvering. It’s now up to us to contact her and hold her to that. Our families, neighbors and communities across Alaska deserve nothing less.

You can email the Senator here, look up the phone number for the office closest to you here, and call her toll-free line throughout Alaska:
1-877-829-6030