Posted on 06/02/2011 8:25:43 AM PDT by CNSNews
(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Labor Department is distributing almost $12 million to ten organizations "to help ensure the success of adult offenders returning to work.”
The grants of $1,170,000 each will provide training, employment and support services to adult former inmates returning to their communities after serving time in what the Labor Department calls "justice facilities."
"The grants announced today are an investment not just in the futures of former inmates, but also in the communities and families to which they are returning," said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis.
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Find a job, cast a vote.
a bunch of em are probably already working in the middle east as “protesters”.
Of course! We wouldn’t want hard-working, God-fearing, Bible-reading, Gun-totin’ Family-Oriented men to get jobs before the dregs of society now, would we? *SPIT*
Helping ex-cons get honest work seems like a reasonable idea to me. What do you suppose they’re going to do if they can’t find work?
how much of that is being spent dragging employers who won’t hire them in to kangaroo courts?
Throw the illegals out?
I think all you need is a basement room and a fax machine.
And enough gall to be divided in partes tres.
No, the ex-cons won’t throw the illegals out of they can’t get jobs. What they will do is to become ex-ex-cons, i.e. they will go back to committing crimes.
But wouldn’t it be better to teach them a trade while incarcerated and at the same time, it could generate revenue for the State. Makes sense, right? The liberals call that slave labor. Better to feed them, clothe them, provide medical and dental care for them while we warehouse them and then throw some more money at them after we’re done with all that. This insanity HAS to stop.
Notice that the article lists the names of some of the Veteran's groups but not of any of the ten organizaions that get the 12 million. I don't suppose they will have names like ACORN, SEIU, ACLU, NCAAP.....
I agree, but the part about the grants also “aiding communities and families....” seems like there is alot of room for corruption and improper use of the money.
Yeah it sounds great.
But how do you convince an employer who’s business sucks so badly from Government regulations that he had to lay off a dozen people who werent ex-cons, to hire the guy that just walked in with M-13 Tattoos, and his pants down around his ankles.
It’s hard enough for people who have stayed clean and sober and have a skill to get a job now.
Unemployment isn’t falling and the recession is just getting started good. Jobs are hard to find for anyone,muh less an ex-con who got turned loose in California because they didn’t have room for him in the jail.
Oh Well: Obama will solve it just like he solves everything else. THROW BORROWED MONEY AT IT.
Simply another aspect of 0bama’s policies of de facto reparations.
The boy king HAS TO boost his voting base by hook or crook!!He is gonna be in a heap of trouble come Nov 6, 2012 with unemployment at 18%, gasoline at $5/gal, and a housing industry in collapse.
I note that you only post threads from your own source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:cnsnews/index?tab=articles
Could it be that you are here in a marketing capacity?
Well, if you don’t want them on welfare (which after yesterday’s arguments), you don’t, helping them find jobs seems like a better alternative.
Yes, I think making them work (hard) in prison - to at least partially offset the cost of incarceration makes great sense. If they can also learn a trade that will help them get a job when they get out - all the better.
Yes, I have no doubt it is at least in part a typical Obama admin boondoggle / payoff.
There are already tax breaks for hiring felons. Federal (was in place before Obama) and some states will give tax credits for hiring them. If they can’t find jobs, what do you think they will do? Not many employers are willing to give people with criminal records a chance. Not that I blame them, but the alternatives are not good.
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