White House Jobs Plan Might Let Businesses Train Unemployed Without Having To Pay Them

As part of a forthcoming jobs package, the Obama administration is considering a program that would let businesses train jobless workers for a short period without having to pay or hire them.

The plan would be modeled on state programs, in particular one called Georgia Works, which allows Georgia businesses to give unemployed workers 24 hours of training per week for two months. Trainees receive a $240 stipend on top of unemployment benefits. The program is voluntary for businesses and workers laid off through no fault of their own and eligible for benefits. Its proponents say it encourages businesses to hire because it limits the risk of spending money to train a worker who might flop.

JoanB wrote:I don't disagree with your observations, sbraney, except for the part about someone with real credibility running against him. Who would that be? Alan Grayson? Dennis Kucinich? Russ Feingold? Howard Dean? I'd love to have any one of them for president, but it's not gonna happen. And please, nobody mention Ralph Nader...I wish he would just STFU and go away.

What I wish we could do is create a pseudo-third party on the left like the Tea Party is on the right, i.e. in their case, really Republicans dragging their party farther to the right. I wish we could figure out how to do the equivalent with the Democratic party, and drag it back to the left, even just to where it was 30 years ago. The problem is that the Tea Party was of astroturf, corporate money origin, and I don't know if it's possible for our side to get something going organically. There certainly are people out there trying, like the Coffee Party, for example, but they're never gonna get the media coverage the Tea Party has gotten.

So I dunno what the answer is, beyond watching it get so bad that an all out revolution is inevitable...because if history is any indication, that's what will happen. It's just gonna take a really stinkin' long time.

Race is an issue because black people have a higher unemployment rate. Continuing to blame Obama's race instead of his incompetence for the unemployment crisis is not going to bring jobs to unemployed Americans. At this point Obama would have to give the deed to the Washington Monument to the Tea Party in order to get a jobs program through Congress.

USA Citizen wrote:Race is an issue because black people have a higher unemployment rate. Continuing to blame Obama's race instead of his incompetence for the unemployment crisis is not going to bring jobs to unemployed Americans. At this point Obama would have to give the deed to the Washington Monument to the Tea Party in order to get a jobs program through Congress.

lendmeflight2 wrote:It's funny that you would post this again. When it was posted the first I made the point that the stand with Arizona blog really misrepresented what actually happened to the pointing lying about it.

They make it sound like he just pardon thousands of immigrants and gave them work permits.

What ACTUALLY happened was that the justice department is giving each deportee his day in court and looking at each case individually.
They can the APPLY for a work permit but will likely be turned down because we only issue so many per year.

My info came from an associated press article, yours cane from a right wing tea party blog. Wonder which one is more accurate?

Although I do realize that facts don't really matter much to the anti-black president group.

WilliamsonAngel wrote:Even with reputable news sources, news services have, in the past, engaged in Yellow Journalism. If we don't learn from the mistakes of the past, we may repeat them.