Washington, DC - Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL), has released the following statement after the Department of Labor announced the national unemployment rate reached 10.2 percent during the month of October:
“Families in Illinois and across the country are hurting as people continue to lose their job. In February, President Obama stood in Peoria and promised that by passing the stimulus package immediately unemployment would not rise above 8 percent. However, last month, there were 190,000 job losses and unemployment reached 10.2 percent – a level of unemployment not seen since April 1983.
“Instead of focusing on legislation that will create jobs, the majority in Congress are choosing to spend their time passing a health care plan that will raise taxes, raise health care costs, add to our national debt, and hurt America’s seniors, families and small businesses. It is time those in power abandon their endless pursuit of government-run health care and begin working on bipartisan solutions that will put the American people back to work.”
