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Thanks everyone for the employment options. But she has already tried all those places. No luck. She looked into the welfare food stamps thing and they indicated it is nearly impossible to get welfare if you are able bodied and without children.
Tell her to go personally visit every single restaurant in town, at around 4pm every day. Ask to see the manager. Tell the manager she would love to work in that restaurant. She'll have a job in a week, trust me. This works at hotels too. Both are ALWAYS looking for good, initiative-taking people. (Yes, even if she has no experience in hospitality. She'll get something based on her perseverance.)
That's bull for people over 30 and unemployed, not to mention there is a glut of wait staff and kitchen workers in towns with high unemployment where people are eating out less than they used to.
Thanks everyone for the employment options. But she has already tried all those places. No luck. She looked into the welfare food stamps thing and they indicated it is nearly impossible to get welfare if you are able bodied and without children.
So that's it? This sounds fishy to me.
Ok, I didn't get that she doesn't have any children.
So she is able-bodied and hasn't been able to find ANYTHING in 93 weeks? With no children she could basically work any job at any time. I must admit I am a bit skeptical. What city does she live in?
Something is strange here. I know it wouldn't take me 93 weeks or 10 weeks to find some kind of job. I have a friend who is unemployed with no college either and she is finding jobs in Florida and North Carolina, she just has to choose. She is also looking at low paying jobs.
How about a live in situation for your friend, a care-taker type position. I'm not talking about a skilled nurse or anything. My friend is finding jobs that pay for room/board and they just want someone to drive their elderly family member, cook for them and clean up.
It pays little but provides a room.
Really, if she is looking for non-skilled low paying jobs they ARE out there.
What city is she in?
She can thank the repubs for that. Apperantly they believe that everyone who has no job is just lazy.
No job in 93 weeks??? And no obligations such as children? Come on, I could find a job in a week under these conditions. She is not looking for a certain pay because the OP admits she doesn't have any skills.
Sorry, I am not being unrealistic but something is not right. Now that her 93 weeks is over (NINETY THREE!!) she is seriously looking! What did she do for the last two years, lay on the couch??
The "repubs" have a right to questions especially if WE the tax payers have been giving her money FREE for 93 weeks!!
And BTW, trlhiker, We repubs do not believe that "everyone who has no job is just lazy" Some are and some are not. But 93 weeks without a job does show some lack of motivation IMO. Of course there are many different situations.
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And what happens if they did extend it 6 more weeks...I don't see that life will return to BAU in 6 weeks. Would that mean 6 more weeks and 6 more weeks ?
The V shaped recovery folks have woken up from their dream state and realize this will be no V shaped recovery..U shaped or worse L shaped where we will see years of stagnant, sluggish movement.
No, the Repubs want the money used for the extension to be offset with cuts somewhere else.
If that's really what they want, the extension could be offset by either increased revenues or decreased expenditures. Easy fix - let the Bush tax cuts expire as the law currently says. That would more than offset the $35 billion for an extension of unemployment benefits, and would return tax rates to the levels during the Clinton administration ... you remember, the last time the economy did just fine?
No job in 93 weeks??? And no obligations such as children? Come on, I could find a job in a week under these conditions. She is not looking for a certain pay because the OP admits she doesn't have any skills.
Sorry, I am not being unrealistic but something is not right. Now that her 93 weeks is over (NINETY THREE!!) she is seriously looking! What did she do for the last two years, lay on the couch??
The "repubs" have a right to questions especially if WE the tax payers have been giving her money FREE for 93 weeks!!
And BTW, trlhiker, We repubs do not believe that "everyone who has no job is just lazy" Some are and some are not. But 93 weeks without a job does show some lack of motivation IMO. Of course there are many different situations.
Why is she only looking for government programs? In almost every city and town in the country there are nonprofit organizations that provide all sorts of social services.
Necessity is the mother of invention. It sounds like she needs to change her approach or maybe her geography.
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