Here’s the odd thing though. If you took this bucket of money that appears to be laying there, and got some jobs counselor hired to ‘lead’ people to the jobs market...got them drug-free so that they could pass the drug-test...then in this Trump market, they’d all be hired in 30 days and wouldn’t be talking about poverty.
Go look at the trucker market. Companies are begging for long-haul truckers who can pass the drug test. Everyone of these folks could be hired up if we sponsored their CDL costs.
This article really hits home for me as my family is from Stockton and my Father was born right next door in French Camp. I agree totally with your response that just giving them money has unintended consequences if not tied to a program to give them new skills and a path forward to better times versus handing out money with no where to go with it
I could see this becoming a “magnet” for folks in the Bay Area in homeless camps to migrate out that way to get the cash and then what??
Job Training and drug rehab programs that work as well as educational assistance will yield results for many, and some will just keep on grifting
I pray for better, I truly do...
Much better idea! Yep, $500./mo. would provide a lot of job training (in the case of trucker, the trucking companies even foot the bill for training).