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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Security
  • Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:27:54 -0800

About 7 or 8 years ago the welfare system changed. Supposedly for the better and the emphasis should be on the *supposedly.*

There is now a 5 year rule (after 5 years no more welfare), change of name (from AFDC [Aid to Families with Dependent Children] to TANF [Temporary Aid to Needy Families]), and a no additional children (if one gets pregnant while on welfare there are no additional funds for that child).

Well, in their infinite wisdom (yeah, right!), they also decided that folks couldn't stay in school for more than 2 years and had to work a job on top of going to school full-time. Now, that might sound great but having worked with a lot folks and having worked in a counseling office of a high school, the reality is that two years at a vocational college won't get you the job. There are those pesky ol' pre-requisites before you can get into a program such as Registered Nurses, Radiology Technician, etc. and those pre-requisites can take you another year. So, they are now requiring that they go to job skills workshops instead of working toward a profession. Plus, for some folks, going to college IS a full-time job. And then you have the folks who dropped out and have to fnish the whole high school thing or get their GED because now they require that. The colleges don't but the system does and that cuts into their two years.

The system is set up to push out Micky D workers and motel maids! So the circle stays with them in one low paying job after another because if they make too much they loose the housing, food stamps, health care and child care.

IF the system got them through the voc training instead of the stupid little workshops (aka creating jobs for county gold bricks), then they'd get off the merry-go-round!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>

Most of this post is sound, but it is incomplete. The decisions one
makes most certainly cause results and further decisions needing to
be made, further results, ad infinitum. But to understand a person we
must go back to first decisions. Earliest decisions were made based
on existing conditions and knowledge and desire. A decision made
based on affluent conditions with strong, positive parental guidance
and with a strong base of sound values will be a different decision
than one based on squalid conditions, stupid parents and a value
system based on easiest survival. Hence the need to "break the cycle"
of living on welfare. If no other conditions are known to the
decision maker, then decisions will be predictably bad.





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