America is the only nation with "poor" people who have cars, computers, cell phones, air conditioning, flat screen TVs, and eat out regularly.
48 Million Takers of Food Stamps is an obscenity.
Posted on 03/21/2015 10:06:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
New federal grants will help 10 states test programs to help food stamp recipients find jobs, from using career coaches to quicker training courses to mental health assistance.
The grants, announced Friday in Georgia by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, come as the Republican Congress is exploring ways to cut the program, which cost $74 billion last year—twice its cost in 2008.
Some in the GOP have proposed stricter work requirements as a way to do that. But the Obama administration sees better worker training as an alternative to cuts or stricter work requirements.
Vilsack said the grants will help USDA identify what works and what doesn’t in terms of getting people to work. …
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I used to teach those classes when unemployment in my area was around 2%. Guess how that worked out?
Show up. Every day. No matter what. That's a lot of it.
Other minor stuff is doing what you say you'll do, and admitting when you don't know something.
I never had to fire anyone that showed up on time, did what they said they'd do, or admitted when they don't know something.
Fired plenty that didn't understand the 40 hour concept.
/johnny
I strongly suspect that before this is all over the government will force people to pull weeds and harvest cabbage.
Yep....this sounds like nothing more than a way to for politicians to get their lazy, no-good brother-in-law a job being a "counselor".
“harvest cabbage”
When I worked in the hinterland of China 38 years ago on new urea plants, the Chinese used their huge shiny front-end loaders on the job site to haul cabbage heads. They used armies of men with homemade rebar chisels to chip away at concrete foundations that were poured too tall. The commies always bragged “there is no unemployment in China.”
That’ll be us soon.
Here’s the lesson:If you won’t work, you won’t eat.
when a family is in front of me in line in the supermarket, and they don’t speak english, and then, they pull out their food stamp card, my blood pressure must shoot up to 230/150.
thats the first law they should pass, you can’t come here and get food stamps, period.
of course, i’m being naive, because i’m sure the first thing certain (and i say certain), immigrants do, is go right down to the welfare office and sign up for every program there is.
and, in massachusetts, we bend over backwards to make sure these new americans know how to get every cent that is available..
Pretty insulting to God that a deformed version of that verse appeared as Article 12 of the 1936 USSR Constitution (aka the “Stalin Constitution”). There was no sign of it in the 1977 USSR Constitution (aka the “Brezhnev Constitution”), funny enough.
Get rid of illegals and you’ll solve the job problem.
Start by banning in casinos and crap food.
Send the Mexican Dreamers home and make the EBT crowd pick fruit.
That sound about like my BP at any given moment.
“In Georgia, participants would use an online tool developed by the state to create individualized work plans.”
If it involves their state’s job “try-out” program, it’ll just be a welfare program for someone else - as it has more success with keeping people repeatedly “trying out” than finding actual work.
If not, it still would be a welfare program - just to a more politically acceptable entity (those involved with administering and accepting these people).
I’d agree that getting rid of illegals would end up being a better plan. It lets the market work, even if it means an increase in wages and/or improved working conditions. Now if guest worker programs were removed, that would help with those that were in higher-skilled lines of work - as it would remove the “false shortage” problem.
One reason these programs will never see the light of day is that certain areas would resemble the antebellum South; why else wouldn’t they be implemented?
America is the only nation with "poor" people who have cars, computers, cell phones, air conditioning, flat screen TVs, and eat out regularly.
48 Million Takers of Food Stamps is an obscenity.
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