Name: Anonymous 2009-03-23 7:29
Like much of the rest of the nation, New York City is hurting. According to one of the City Council members, "The unemployment rate is now the highest its been in over twenty five years."
High unemployment hits people of every marital status and every parental status. The most recent controversy is over single people without children who are out of work and actively looking for jobs.
As it stands, singles without dependents who are looking for work are eligible for food stamps for only three months in a 3-year period President Obama's economic stimulus package offers states federal dollars to extend eligibility for food stamps through September 2010.
Again, the provision would let single people who are actively seeking work to continue to eat as they do so. They want to work; they are looking for a job; they haven't found one yet.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn't having it. He has refused to sign off on the waiver to extend food benefits to the eligible single people.
The Mayor doesn't have to find the money. That money will create even more money. The food stamps will go to eligible singles who want to work and are trying to find work. Those singles aren't going to get Bernie Madoff-like penthouse accommodations. They are going to get to eat, just barely enough. (A CNN reporter tried it; he said the allowance amounted to $6.28 a day.)
High unemployment hits people of every marital status and every parental status. The most recent controversy is over single people without children who are out of work and actively looking for jobs.
As it stands, singles without dependents who are looking for work are eligible for food stamps for only three months in a 3-year period President Obama's economic stimulus package offers states federal dollars to extend eligibility for food stamps through September 2010.
Again, the provision would let single people who are actively seeking work to continue to eat as they do so. They want to work; they are looking for a job; they haven't found one yet.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn't having it. He has refused to sign off on the waiver to extend food benefits to the eligible single people.
The Mayor doesn't have to find the money. That money will create even more money. The food stamps will go to eligible singles who want to work and are trying to find work. Those singles aren't going to get Bernie Madoff-like penthouse accommodations. They are going to get to eat, just barely enough. (A CNN reporter tried it; he said the allowance amounted to $6.28 a day.)