[DoughtyOne]

My wife was a volunteer coordinator for fourteen years. During that time she came in contact with the welfare to work program. I don't know the total specifics of the program, but the idea was to pay the recipient minimum wage for working part time. This was supposed to introduce them into the work community, and obtain them full-time employment. Sadly, the types of candidates my wife dealt with would hardly ever become full time emplyees. They were misfits and unsuited to the professional work environment.

Then I read an article one day that mentioned that these people are considered workers and taken off the welfare rolls. They still get welfare, and yet they were only working 8 to 16 hours per week. None the less, their numbers are reduced from welfare rolls and included in the employment figures.

Take that 5.6% with at least a little grain of salt fella.

[petercooper]

and how many could that be - thousands? wouldn't make a bit of difference in the u/e rate

[TheSpottedOwl]

I've dealt with those work to welfare employees. Some of these "ladies" should never be put behind a teller window, or on the phone for customer service. They should be in the back, stocking shelves somewhere, so the rest of us don't have to put up with their lack of social graces.

I remember several years ago, when I had to transfer all my mom's bank accounts into one conservatorship account. I was waited on by a young woman with gang tattooes on her hands and there was a little teardrop by her eye, at a particular financial institution. Not exactly what I want to see handling money. She was also dumb as a sack of dead kittens, with the personality to match.

I left wondering how much the government paid these folks to hire such a person.

Is it me, or is there something wrong with the font. It's been coming up bold, and I didn't do anything...honest!