Unemployment Going Nowhere
While flipping your way through the Sunday paper in a mad rush for the Sports section, or the huge need to see just what your horoscope says is in your future for romance, you probably skim past the section 4 D titled Classifieds, and place it promptly in its personal filing cabinet, the garbage. How many people do you suppose actually look through that? More than you realize. Our nations unemployment rate has rose to 5.9% in June alone. (Dept. of Human Services) Why then do there seem to be so many jobs available, but yet in July 1999 through May 2000, did Iowa taxpayers help 20,336 families per month receive FIP? (Family Investment Program-provides cash to needy families) (Dept. of Human Services) For residents to collect unemployment insurance benefits from the DHS is made to easy for those who just plain take advantage of our system. I have known people, and I still know people who don't want to work so they collect unemployment benefits. I know women who would rather spend their own money on luxury items, so they use all the options possible to them, receiving money from the government. There are people out there who need the help, and are working towards a future for themselves and their
families, taking the opportunity that is available to them. One opportunity is Promise Jobs. Promise Jobs is a program that provides work and training services. (Iowa Workforce) It includes assessment and employment related services such as job search, paid, and unpaid work. Promise Jobs also provides basic education (high school) and post-secondary education (college) for people wanting to finish school, or attend college. It also includes targeted employment related education and short training. There are supportive services available for counseling, parenting classes, life skills, and so on. Promise Jobs is just an excellent benefit to those who know about it or who want to make something of themselves. Dept. of Human Services. (2000) Retrieved July, 12 2002 from the World Wide Web: One feasible solution would be to base it off Promise Jobs. Require all people that are involved with state aid or collecting unemployment for a certain period of time to go through a program, which starts with assessment and brief counseling. Assessment to decide what they are capable of, or with minimum training, and counseling to set goals and discuss if they feel comfortable doing something that the assessment has shown. The next step would involve training or schooling. For those people who want to go back to college and get a degree, promise jobs is already in effect. With this they receive money to go to school, if they are a full time student, including paying for gas, and child care help. Training should be involved for people who just need a little help to get a better job. With all the money we spend letting people stay on unemployment, etc. we should use it for better things. If we browse through the classifieds and get a general idea of what is needed to fill some of these positions, we realize we can make truck drivers, secretaries, and so on. The unemployment office should team un with an
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