SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris is urging the union’s 160,000 members to contact their representatives in Congress and tell them to support the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. “Your participation is needed,” she said in a posting on the union’s website. “Please let your representatives and senators know today how important Covid-19 economic relief is.”“Elections are over, your votes have been counted, and we ask those elected to honor the promises made to help those in need,” she wrote. “We applaud the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan and we ask that Congress take action on it expeditiously.”The benefits in the Plan include: $1,400 direct stimulus payments; an increase in the federal stipend for unemployment insurance
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