Get on your mark, get ready run to it $$$$$ before it goes away

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Bob Shipman

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Friends, A major state public jobs program has been announced by the PA Labor and Industry and Public Welfare Departments.The challenge now is to be sure that non-profits, companies and state and city agencies will step up and put these people to work.

Business owners and visionary's that are ready with plans on the drawing board, are granted free labor for six months, in hopes it can create long term jobs when the businesses grow as a result of the added labor. 20,000 families get to eat steak a few nights a week. Subsidized work is coming, uh is here. These are the true ( PWE) Paid Work Experience jobs, some call them community service jobs. Not unlike the jobs created post depression and during the late 1960's. The other PWE pays the workers and once they show proof of income it is subtracted from the benefits, no gain just busy work. Hell it keeps many of us working while others stay on a treadmill. The only thing missing from this picture is the college and training component. I attended college in the early 1970's on one of these same programs called the Model Cities Program , the one that President Johnson completed the ground work from the JFK administration. The Obama recovery plan is finally reaching the ground, where the grass roots organizations can benefit and try to get the programs running that the community desperately needs, but no mental health or drug and alcohol treatment. It comes during the interm period before deregulation, PECO and PGW will become deregulated and the cost of those utilities will hit the Pennsylvania families in the place where there may only be lent. Do the math and lay it over a calendar. April , 2010 funds start to flow, the Bueau of the Census will be paying a lot of people some good money, $14-19 bucks a hour, ending in the fall. The subsidized jobs programs such as the one Pennsylvania is setting up will be winding down. Thats two large groups entering the jobless ranks. TANF and Unemployment claims will rise into 2011, benefits and will be ending in summer 2011, Financial Tsunami rolls in September 2011. Funding cuts for the grass roots organizations will reappear. personal debts rise from the purchases of big ticket items, the game continues. But, But this is Big. The political ramifications may make the mayor look good and the president look bad, timing is the key, catch the wave. But still some questions remain for the PA Board making the plans. This is big! Smaller employers might be able to use the help, but "we have to see how many dollars are there for administration," Glickman said. "Can we manage 2,000 work sites?" With the need for job placement in the old sense, it is time to really help those families that has real issues and needs. This now is the time when case managers, peer counselors, career advisors and those called by so many other names. The sitting down and reviewing living situations that hamper long term employment. (Putting together the program quickly represents a managerial challenge, said Sallie Glickman, who heads Philadelphia's Workforce Investment Board. The easiest way might be a bulk placement, she said. The stimulus money can be used for basic assistance, short-term emergency needs, and subsidized job programs such as the one Pennsylvania is setting up. Pennsylvania is eligible for $359.7 million in TANF emergency funds and has drawn $29 million of the sum for basic assistance and short-term uses.) http://www.philly.com/philly/business/85636627.html In short most TANF employed case managers will need to be deprogrammed, as most are in the same situations as their clients. The real tsunami will be when the money runs out in September 2011 and most of the community will be laid off, terminated. The TANF roles will swell so fast time to adjust should start now..."This program is a win-win for business, which can benefit from these subsidized jobs, and for the unemployed, who are desperately looking for work," Dietrich said. -- "We are very pleased that the state has recognized the need for a jobs program and is taking advantage of the opportunity to fund it with stimulus dollars," said Sharon Dietrich, who heads the Community Legal Services employment practice in Philadelphia and has been advocating for the program. Below read the email sent out to the community by John Dodds, a tireless warrior for the jobless and low income population. From: JDoddsPUP@aol.com [ mailto:JDoddsPUP@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:10 PM To: JDoddsPUP@aol.com Subject: Major Public Jobs Program Announced! Friends, A major state public jobs program has been announced by the PA Labor and Industry and Public Welfare Departments. Up to 20,000 unemployed Pennsylvanians will be hired using federal stimulus funds. Job slots will be in non-profit, public sector, or private sector jobs and all wages will be paid by the state of Pennsylvania. Here is a link to an Inquirer article that reports on the new program. Click here: Pa. to fund jobs with federal stimulus money | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/27/2010 http://www.philly.com/philly/business/85636627.html People on unemployment, food stamps or welfare are eligible for the jobs. The challenge now is to be sure that non-profits, companies and state and city agencies will step up and put these people to work. Funds are not available for supervision, but free workers paid for by the state will be available. If you are interested in taking on people from the public program jobs please let us know. Details are still being put together, but this is an opportunity to grow a business or offer services to the community, as well as provide a job for one of the 550,000 unemployed Pennsylvanians. A copy of the guidance from the state is attached. John Dodds

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