On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 6:45:09 PM UTC-4, Gunner Asch wrote:

One suggestion is to require the individuals "stuck" in
these jobs or "unemployable" to attend paid basic
literacy/numeracy and urban survival skill [including money
management] classes, i. e. "a hand up, not a hand out.".

Excellent suggestion!!!

Gunner

It is a good suggestion for helping those who will benefit from help. Unfortunately there are a good many that are not able to benefit.

And then there are those that are able to con the system. I have a friend who was a draftsman. His hobby was caving. He lived in a trailer and was not married. He was laid off from a drafting job and then lived on unemployment. And I think he went to a federal training program to became a machinist. So he just did a lot of caving and did not want to find a job. When all the bennies ran out , he went back to working as a draftsman. He could have easily gotten a drafting job, but just took the opportunity to go caving. He said the federal training program was filled with those who did not want to learn.

Dan