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.
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.
There’s nothing surer...
But ain’t they got fun!
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.
Kalifornia will soon be the next Greece.
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.
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.
Minimum wage: the idea that a job at $5 an hour is worse than having no job at all.
but no.....they'll go after school sports and diababled services first....
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.
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”
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.
This is a good start.
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.
I rent a one-bedroom in Weho. I love the weather here, but... geez. Sometimes I dream of going back to the Midwest.
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