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Poor just got poorer
Sacramento Bee ^ | 7/1/11 | Cynthia Hubert

Posted on 07/01/2011 9:01:02 AM PDT by SmithL

Things just got bleaker for California's poorest residents.

CalWORKs, the state's "welfare to work" program, took a major hit in the state budget deal that Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Thursday, reducing grants to their lowest levels in more than 20 years.

Beginning today, monthly grants will be slashed by 8 percent, to an average of $460 for a family of three. That translates to an income that is less than 30 percent of the amount the federal government has determined is necessary to meet basic needs.

In addition, the new budget reduces the lifetime limit on CalWORKs cash assistance for adults from five years to four, and cuts funding for employment services and child care. Advocates also are lamenting the suspension of the Cal Learn program, which offers aid to pregnant and parenting teens in an effort to keep them in school.

Welfare officials said the cuts will make it more difficult to accomplish the CalWORKs mission of offering temporary cash aid, job training and other help to lift people from public assistance to independence. Some 1.5 million Californians get CalWORKs benefits.

"We are taking people who live on the bare minimum as it is, and they are going back to 1987 levels in funding," said Nancy O'Hara, assistant director of Yolo County's Department of Employment and Social Services. "Who can live on that?"

"We all understand that the state is out of money," O'Hara added. "But

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"We all understand that the state is out of money," O'Hara added. "But . . .
That final "but" just proves that she DOESN'T understand.
1 posted on 07/01/2011 9:01:07 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

And am I to assume that O’Hara has recommended a massive reduction on salaries to fellow government loaf..er..workers along with “teachers”, etc?

Thought so.

Shove it up your smelly Obama, O’Hara.


2 posted on 07/01/2011 9:04:23 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SmithL

There’s nothing surer...

But ain’t they got fun!


3 posted on 07/01/2011 9:06:47 AM PDT by mrsmith
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To: SmithL
The cost of Illegal Aliens to California, alone, is $21.8 billion/year. If California would actually follow the law; most, if not all of their budgetary deficit would vanish.
4 posted on 07/01/2011 9:13:26 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: SmithL
Instead of paying your bills, just send a note letting them know that you are out of money. I'm sure they'll understand.
5 posted on 07/01/2011 9:15:42 AM PDT by JPG (Halperin in wishing Obama's first name was Richard...then he could always call him Dick.)
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To: SmithL

Jerry Brown and the California Legislature by raising taxes and creating more regulatory red tape are driving businesses out of the state. Those businesses could be providing jobs for these welfare queens.


6 posted on 07/01/2011 9:17:15 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: SmithL

Kalifornia will soon be the next Greece.


7 posted on 07/01/2011 9:19:12 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: SmithL
Less dough for those that refuse to work, my heart bleeds.

Maybe O'Hara can as some of her illegal alien clients where the jobs are so her legal resident clients can take their jobs when O'Hara turns the illegals in and opens up that job, getting rid of a double dip.

8 posted on 07/01/2011 9:20:21 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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To: The Great RJ

Unfortunately that is not their goal, their goal is simple: make as many people as humanly possible dependent on the government for their daily subsistence, while simultaneously punishing those who refuse to become wards of the state.

See Communist Manifesto.


9 posted on 07/01/2011 9:25:38 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SmithL

10 posted on 07/01/2011 9:31:02 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: SmithL

Minimum wage: the idea that a job at $5 an hour is worse than having no job at all.


11 posted on 07/01/2011 9:39:15 AM PDT by mvpel
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To: Da Coyote
all it would take is that the govt unions agree to small decreases in wages, benefits, and pensions, for all their workers....

but no.....they'll go after school sports and diababled services first....

12 posted on 07/01/2011 9:44:01 AM PDT by cherry
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To: SmithL
That final "but" just proves that she DOESN'T understand.

The final "but" proves she's advocating shoving CA further toward Socialism with a huge tax increase, followed by another and another until the state controlled most private income and allocated it as the state sees fit.

13 posted on 07/01/2011 9:47:42 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: SmithL

while some teacher get a 28% raise, from the article I read yesterday here on FR...

I love it when identity groups clash under the “big tent”


14 posted on 07/01/2011 9:49:34 AM PDT by esoxmagnum
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To: Navy Patriot
Less dough for those that refuse to work, my heart bleeds.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

15 posted on 07/01/2011 9:51:43 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: SmithL

This is a good start.


16 posted on 07/01/2011 12:22:51 PM PDT by upchuck (Think you know hardship? Ha! Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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"The Poor" - oops, my mistake. I thought she meant the endlessly-paying taxpayers... I live in the SF Valley. I need a new roof for my crummy old one-bthroom tiny house. I can't afford it - because 50% of my incomes goes TO THE GOV'T. I have to borrow the money, to pay for the roof. Why can't those who need student loans borrow the money? Why do I HAVE TO "BORROW," FOR THEM, AFTER I GIVE THEM MY TAXES? (I'm a girl BTW, but the pic seemed accurate.)
17 posted on 07/01/2011 1:59:38 PM PDT by 4Liberty (88% of Americans are NON-UNION. We value honest, peaceful Free trade-NOT protectionist CARTELS)
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To: SmithL
We are not asking them to try to live on this so-called Grant Money for less; we are telling them to get off their fat asses and go get a frickin job!
18 posted on 07/01/2011 2:02:11 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: cherry

They’re not stupid. The unions and administrators know where to cut to make the most pain on parents.

Here in Indiana some districts’ first response was to eliminate bus transportation.


19 posted on 07/01/2011 2:04:49 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: 4Liberty

I rent a one-bedroom in Weho. I love the weather here, but... geez. Sometimes I dream of going back to the Midwest.


20 posted on 07/01/2011 6:05:21 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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