How the Long Term Unemployed Helped to Cut Welfare

Our coming jobs depression will be due to corporate outsourcing and Union opposition to creating a work force consisting of provisional public workers (workers that rely upon the government for employment in areas of public service possessing high turnover rates and limited advancement). Provisional Public workers would consist of individuals usually considered unemployable by regular employers that are willing to work for lower wages and less benefits than Union workers or private contractors in order to rejoin the work force.

The strategy would consist of 1) offering PPW positions to those willing to work for 2/3 of what Union employees and private contractors, or sub-contractors are willing to work for, provided that they leave welfare and SSI; 2) willing to be subjected to a national standardization of wages; while working within the public sector; 3) abstain from joining unions; while employed within the public sector; 4) accepting a standardized health benefit and work environment agreement that is enforced by government agencies such as OSHA and others; 5) accept employment within service areas requiring continual maintenance that possess a high labor turnover. These 5 things would prevent the maintenance of public amenities such as parks, roads, bus shelters, etc. from exceeding state and federal level of affordability; thus, allowing much needed maintenance of state/city infrastructure to continue; while decreasing public health hazards and preventing loss of crucial social services.

The strategy of creating PPWs would decrease expenses within those areas to which the U.S Federal, state, and municipal governments provide services and amenities to private citizens; while making it possible for workers that are considered unemployable by regular employers to be hired into the public sector to perform labor in areas that do not require extensive skill training within a community college setting, but could be taught through OJT programs created for native U.S born disabled and displaced older workers; thus, successfully removing these individuals from chronic unemployment, SSI/SSDI and welfare lines. It would also reduce strain on tax payers by reducing the amount of taxes needed to pay for these programs. According to Ron Miller of Cincinnati.Com, “in 10 years public-sector wages and benefits have grown twice as fast as those in the private sector. Economist Barry Bluestone shows us that, between 2000 and 2008, the price of state and local public services has increased by 41 percent nationally, compared with 27 percent for private services (et. al. Aug, 8 2011). This was phenomena was also reported by the New York Times.


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