Hi Eugene --
Thanks for your interest in these posts. The Daily Report is an
internal Bureau of Labor Statistics document. I forward it to
the list because
1. It has a high information content regarding the economy.
2. Sometimes there are references to useful analyses.
3. Sometimes there are statements from the ruling class or our political
opponents that we would do well to be aware of.
I do not, nor does BLS, endorse anything in these reports.
Dave Richardson
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Subject: [PEN-L:6342] Re: FW: BLS Daily Report
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 1996 3:52PM
Richardson, in sending the useful BLS DAILY REPORT quotes the following:
>
>In the national effort to move millions of welfare recipients into the
>work force over the next few years, the key challenge is not likely to
>be a lack of jobs, says The Washington Post (Sept. 22, page A1). For
>the most part, experts are convinced that the American economy can
>create the 2 million or so jobs for those who will be required to find
>work under the new welfare law. Nor will the problem be that adults on
>the welfare rolls, most of whom are women, can't compete for those jobs.
> Generally, case workers and state welfare agencies say that, although
>women on welfare typically have poor job skills and little education,
>most can still find at least an entry-level position ....The central
>issue most apt to stand in the way of true welfare reform is figuring
>out how to help these workers keep a job over a sustained period of
>time. What communities ... are finding through programs already in
>place is that many welfare recipients lack the kinds of basic resources,
>training, and practical experience that help middle-class workers
>weather the challenges of the workplace, everything from a credit card
>to use when the car battery dies to the "soft skills" that communicate a
>positive attitude and help employees deal with day-to-day office
>politics and workplace conflicts ....The Post says that the challenge of
>finding jobs and keeping them has been made much more difficult by the
>large-scale suburbanization of new employment and uses BLS figures on
>employment and unemployment in some cities, counties, and metropolitan
>areas ....
>
If the economy can't create enough jobs for the massive number of
unemployed now, why are these "experts" so convinced? And who are
they?
