Unemployment hits 7.6%--we need those green jobs NOW

7.6%

That's the number you'll see all over the news today--the unemployment rate announced today by the Labor Department. The economy is hemorraging jobs at a faster rate than anyone anticipated:

Recession-battered employers eliminated 598,000 jobs in January, the most since the end of 1974, and catapulted the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent. The grim figures were further proof that the nation's job climate is deteriorating at an alarming clip with no end in sight.

Those 2 million jobs that the green investments in the stimulus bill would create sure look pretty good right now. Let's make it happen: call your senators today and tell them to keep the stimulus green!