With steep state budget cuts under debate in Sacramento, Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to push for changes to CalWorks and other government aid programs they said would save nearly $270 million.
Included in their suggestions is a novel proposal: Put unemployed parents to work caring for their own children.
[blockquote]Put unemployed parents to work caring for their own children.[/blockquote]
Maybe we can put them to work for breathing air and brushing their own teeth as well.
Archer, you are still sleep deprived by that new baby of yours. You need to head to Pierre ASAP and [i] demand [/i] your share (hmmm – you are not unemployed, though… let me get back to you on that).
That’s very possible. I have had months with more sleep in my life.
I’m not sure this is a terrible idea. Dumping money into childcare to prepare people for a workforce that doesn’t want them right now doesn’t seem like the best plan. The highly motivated people, like a couple of the ones in the article, can stay on their current plan, and the ones who are just taking up space and doing the minimum “training” to qualify can stop wasting our time and money on training and childcare for a year.