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Post by candleangie on Mar 19, 2022 19:02:40 GMT
Thanks @redsquirreluk !
For those of you with younger applicants….
I come at this problem from the other side of the desk. I’m a GM in a retail store and I have four open positions.
Only two of them would be open to a teenager, for liability reasons. Of those, only one would be open to a student, because I can accommodate most schedules, but the other one DOES require a couple of weekday day shifts.
The positions that I can train a high school or young college student into are ALWAYS the first ones filled, because that’s the lions share of the applications I receive.
On an unrelated note…. If you know anyone over 18 who wants to become a custom framer in Beaverton Oregon, or anyone over 25 with a clean driving record who wants a few shifts a week as a warehouse picker/driver….send them my way! Lol
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Post by hop2 on Mar 19, 2022 19:30:57 GMT
I can’t speak for every state, but unemployment benefits in Texas last a maximum of six months. Less if you were employed for a short time. No one is just living endlessly on unemployment. I’m not referring to unemployment, although I believe that in my state it lasts longer than 6 months. I’m referring to other benefits like medical assistance and food stamps. Some people also get cash and housing assistance but I am not sure what the requirements are for that. But I do know many people (before and after the pandemic) that live off of benefits. Some of them work intermittently. I’m just wondering if that number has gone up or not. It may not have, it was just something that I was thinking about. If you have housing assistance you basically can’t work or you loose your assistance immediately. If you got to the point where you needed housing assistance you have no assets, NO money in the bank, if you get a job & loose your assistance immediately ( which is the rule here ) then where the he’ll are you getting a rental deposit from? No, they don’t kick you out, but they immediately charge you what they consider ‘market rate’ and the apartments are below what you’d get elsewhere for the higher rate they charge. So your immediately charged ‘market rate’ for a substandard apartment. Guaranteeing that your still not going to be saving money for a rental deposit wise where. Logically, if it is common to need 1st months rent up front plus 1.5-2 months security deposit ( which is standard here ) then when a family in housing assistance get a job they should have a MINIMUM of 3 months to save that money, towards those necessary deposits to move elsewhere. However, even 3 months doesn’t actually make sense because they do owe some rent plus other living expenses so if you really want people to get out of the system, to save the money they NEED to go out on their own, they ought to have approx a 6 -12 month grace period to get their life together and save the deposit for a regular non subsidized apartment. If your ( general your ) really so god damned convinced that they will spend that 6-12 months ‘cheating the system’ then allow the 6-12 months and require them to put the savings in an escrow account or other like account they have upon moving out. Housing assistance is not designed to be a helping hand or a temporary solution when your down. The rules are designed to keep you in poverty-permanently.
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twinsmomfla99
Pearl Clutcher
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Mar 19, 2022 20:47:39 GMT
UCLA did not get the memo. Please tell me that isn’t real. Or that it’s a posting meant to be used by a postdoctoral fellow in return for a tuition waiver. As far as I can tell, it’s real, and no tuition waiver was mentioned in the report I saw. It’s an “assistant adjunct professor,” which isn’t a position I’ve ever heard of before. Our post-docs get paid more than a tuition waiver, and this position is just insulting!
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twinsmomfla99
Pearl Clutcher
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Mar 20, 2022 15:58:41 GMT
Please tell me that isn’t real. Or that it’s a posting meant to be used by a postdoctoral fellow in return for a tuition waiver. As far as I can tell, it’s real, and no tuition waiver was mentioned in the report I saw. It’s an “assistant adjunct professor,” which isn’t a position I’ve ever heard of before. Our post-docs get paid more than a tuition waiver, and this position is just insulting! There is an update! newworkplace.wordpress.com/2022/03/19/want-to-teach-at-ucla-you-can-for-free-that-is/Apparently, this was a red-tape requirement listing for getting funding for a Ukrainian scholar. UCLA has pulled the ad.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 20, 2022 16:52:53 GMT
I can’t speak for every state, but unemployment benefits in Texas last a maximum of six months. Less if you were employed for a short time. No one is just living endlessly on unemployment. I’m not referring to unemployment, although I believe that in my state it lasts longer than 6 months. I’m referring to other benefits like medical assistance and food stamps. Some people also get cash and housing assistance but I am not sure what the requirements are for that. But I do know many people (before and after the pandemic) that live off of benefits. Some of them work intermittently. I’m just wondering if that number has gone up or not. It may not have, it was just something that I was thinking about. This is from 2014, but it's a really well done story about the reality of food stamps. The journalist won a Pulitzer Prize. Benefits are not the cash cow that people sometimes think. Very few able-bodied, working age Americans are living off benefits alone. www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pulitzer-winner-dug-beyond-politics-food-stamps-serieswww.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2013/12/15/waiting-for-the-8th/More information theconversation.com/life-on-welfare-isnt-what-most-people-think-it-is-139526This shows facts about who receives food stamps, broken down by state www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets#Alabamawww.cbpp.org/research/contrary-to-entitlement-society-rhetoric-over-nine-tenths-of-entitlement-benefits-go-toSome conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which social programs are undermining the work ethic and creating a large class of Americans who prefer to depend on government benefits rather than work. A new CBPP analysis of budget and Census data, however, shows that more than 90 percent of the benefit dollars that entitlement and other mandatory programs[1] spend go to assist people who are elderly, seriously disabled, or members of working households — not to able-bodied, working-age Americans who choose not to work. (See Figure 1.) This figure has changed little in the past few years.
People who are neither elderly nor disabled — and do not live in a working household — received only 9 percent of the benefits.
Moreover, the vast bulk of that 9 percent goes for medical care, unemployment insurance benefits (which individuals must have a significant work history to receive), Social Security survivor benefits for the children and spouses of deceased workers, and Social Security benefits for retirees between ages 62 and 64. Seven out of the 9 percentage points go for one of these four purposes.justharvest.org/advocacy/the-truth-about-snap-food-stamps/Can anyone can get food stamps, settle back, and live high off the hog?
the truth about food stamps: next time you judge You’ve likely heard stories (and outrage) about people using food stamps to purchase “steak and lobster” as well as cigarettes and alcohol, showing up at the grocery store in a nice car, nice clothes, a nice purse or an iPhone. But the federal government sets the food stamps benefit amount at, on average, roughly $4 a day per person.
Yes, someone could save up their monthly allotment to buy some high-priced food items for a special occasion. But they are likely eating rice and beans, peanut butter sandwiches – and going hungry – the rest of the month. (And you definitely can’t use food stamps to buy prepared foods or anything that’s not food.)
Many people fall into poverty after a job loss, losing a partner or spouse, or a major illness or accident. Or they were born into poverty and remained stuck there largely due to circumstances beyond their control. Either way, they will maintain appearances and hold onto any nice things they have for as long as they can. After all, they’re clearly being judged by those around them.
To receive food stamps you must be poor…
And you have to prove it. The U.S. Congress sets the rules and the funding for the SNAP/food stamps program, and then states administer it. To be eligible for food stamps your social security number is run through a number of government databases and you have to provide documents of your income and all your expenses.
Federal rules state that you can only be eligible for food stamps if your gross income (before taxes or deductions) is below 130% of federal poverty level guidelines, which determines what a livable income is based on household size. Under the federal policy of “categorical eligibility,” states can opt into higher income guidelines under certain circumstances, and more than 40 states do. In Pennsylvania, gross income can be up to 160% of the official poverty level, and 200% if a household member is elderly or disabled. (You can find the exact income guidelines here). However, Pres. Trump is trying to end states’ ability to let the near-poor access SNAP by terminating categorical eligibility, which will kick millions of Americans off food stamps.
Some people aren’t eligible for food stamps regardless of income, such as all undocumented immigrants, certain legal immigrants, and individuals who are on strike. Pres. Trump’s plan to end categorical eligibility will also force all states to require burdensome asset tests. States can also create their own eligibility measures, like barring from SNAP those who fail drug tests or people with prior criminal offenses.
And, if possible, you must be working.
In 1996, President Clinton and Congress put in place work requirements for unemployed food stamps recipients. Able-bodied adults age 18-49 and without dependents must work at least 20 hours a week to receive SNAP benefits. Alternatively, they must be engaged in job training, education, or community service for a certain number of hours each week. Otherwise they can only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 3-year period. High unemployment caused this rule to be suspended during the recent economic recession but is now back in place. (In Pennsylvania, the Wolf administration reinstated work requirements in most of the state on March 1, 2016. However, starting January 1, 2019, they waived the work requirement for much of PA, including Allegheny County. These waivers are renewed every year, so the areas which are waived may change again in 2020.)
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