SOS from Tri-State area to DC
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U.S. senators who represent the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are sending an SOS to the lame-duck Bush administration to help workers in the New York City metropolitan region who have lost their jobs due to the worsening economy.
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y, Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Christopher Dodd, D-Conn, and Joseph Lieberman, Ind.-Conn., are asking for $48 million for the three states to provide a “coordinated response to aid the hundreds fo thousands of workers already bearing the brunt of the deepening recession.” The wrote a letter to Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao.
Unemployment in the tri-state region increased 1.3 percent between April and September of this year, which means 140,000 jobs were lost, according to the lawmakers. Analysts estimate the region could lose another 160,000 private-sector jobs by the end of this year.
“It is imperative that our states have the resources to cop with this rising wave of unemployment and to help transition these individuals to new jobs,” the Senators wrote. “This grant will provide our states with the crucial resources they need to support the extraordinary number of workers in our region left jobless and at risk in the midst of this recession.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
