I guess that's what all the lying and looting is for: your own good.
How you doing, anyway?
"One more census question: Anyone want these jobs?; Bureau seeking more applicants for thousands of positions" by Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff | March 20, 2010
Jobs may still be scarce, but one agency is having trouble finding enough applicants for work that pays almost $23 an hour: the US Census Bureau.
More STIMULOOTING, 'eh?
See: Covering Up a Costly and Corrupt Census
Yup, that's my agenda-pushing Glob.
This made the agenda-pushing front page!
As it gears up for the 2010 national count, the bureau needs to fill more than 3,000 temporary positions in Boston over the next several weeks. So far, there are about 11,250 candidates to fill a pool of 15,000 that officials say they need to make sure there are enough qualified applicants.
Census takers in the city can earn $22.75 an hour, or about $910 a week for full-time work for up to 2 1/2 months. But officials say people have been slow to sign up in some neighborhoods — especially those where incomes are low, and those that are most affluent.
“We’ve had our challenges,’’ said census coordinator Kim Wong. “That’s why we need to get word out there.’’
The Census Bureau mailed millions of questionnaires to Massachusetts households this week. Most temporary workers will be sent door to door to interview residents who do not respond to the mailed forms, which should be returned by April 1.
Get the f*** off my property!!!
In addition to determining the official size of the population, census data — collected every 10 years — is used to allocate spending on government-backed programs and to set the number of congressional seats in each state. In Massachusetts, a seat in the House of Representatives is probably at stake.
Who cares?
Btw, we are going to lose a seat because people are leaving (other than the illegals the government cares so much about).
Census officials say they need more job applicants.... To drum up more applicants, recruiters are visiting community centers, churches, and employment offices. They recently blanketed the South End with fliers written in English and Spanish.
Wong said the Census Bureau seeks five people for every position based on past experience. Many candidates are eliminated because they don’t score high enough on a test, she said, or fail a criminal background check. That’s typical of census campaigns, she said, no matter what the state of the economy. “We’ve worked hard to try to recruit and make the jobs attractive and make the pay competitive,’’ said Shelly Lowe, a spokeswoman for the Census Bureau....
And still failed.
NO ONE WANTS to LISTEN to GOVERNMENT ANYMORE, don't you get it?
Census takers are required to speak fluent English, and bilingual applicants are in demand.
You know....
They must also be US citizens, 18 or older, and pass a criminal background check. There is no educational requirement, but candidates must pass a 30-minute test of clerical, reading, and evaluation skills. The test may be taken in Spanish, but Spanish-speakers must also pass an English proficiency test.
During a Thursday visit to Job Net, a downtown career-search center, Alejandro Panameno of Hyde Park said he wanted to work as a census taker, but found the test too difficult. An unemployed biotechnology worker and native of El Salvador who has lived in the United States since the 1970s, Panameno said he could not comprehend some of the wording. “I can understand a lot of English, but I was so confused,’’ he said.
Ever notice the Globe can never find an actual American-born citizen for anything?
Or if it they do it is a *ew.
Emon Waller, 24, a Berklee College of Music student who recently lost his part-time job at an electronics store, said he will consider applying. That’s “not bad at all,’’ he said of the $22.75 rate. “Especially after being paid $11 an hour’’ at the electronics store.
Of course, you would TAKE the JOB at $11, right, kiddo?
Pfft! I'm sick of this shit-shoveling slop from the Boston Globe.
Census workers’ pay varies depending on the community. Officials said they research the prevailing wages in cities and towns to determine an hourly figure. A Worcester worker, for instance, will make $18.50 an hour, while the rate in Plymouth is $16.
????
Stephanie Morrison, 38, a former office manager from South Boston, is not interested in a census position. She said she would rather spend her time and energy looking for long-term employment. “My apprehension about it is that it only lasts [a few] months,’’ she said. “The circumstances would probably mess up my unemployment benefits.’’
Didn't Congress already do that?
Judy Bottkol, an employment counselor at Jewish Vocational Service’s Career Moves program in Newton, said Morrison’s concern is shared by job-hunters she counsels.
See where they went, readers.
This is it; I'm sick of *ewshit news.
Laid-off workers seeking to renew unemployment benefits for a second year are penalized for taking temporary work while looking for a permanent job because second-year benefits are recalculated based on pay earned from temporary work. “We should be encouraging people to work, not discouraging them,’’ she said. Bottkol said five of her clients have applied for census jobs and all scored well on the test. None have heard whether they will be canvassing city streets this spring, she said....
I don't care what happens to her people, you know.
Yeah, about that recalculation. I've been holding on to it; however, who really cares anymore about what the Boston Globe has to say on its front page?
"When stints on payroll hurt the jobless; Temporary wages lower the calculation for unemployment benefits" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | February 17, 2010
After nearly a year without work, Gary LaPlante was happy to take a three-week construction job. What he didn’t know was that the job would cost him more than two-thirds of his benefits when he went back on unemployment.
LaPlante, a union carpenter, is among thousands of unemployed in Massachusetts and across the nation who are discovering an unexpected kink in the system that can mean drastic cuts in their unemployment benefits.
Notice banks and war-looters never experience unexpected kinks?
And when Israel wants a check.... whoosh, off it goes.
Workers who seek to renew their benefits for a second year - not uncommon during this recession - are finding that their new benefits are based on their most recent wages, even if it was low pay for temporary or part-time work.
LaPlante’s benefits, for example, were slashed to $178 a week from more than $600. He was forced to move in with a friend, who supported him for several months before he found a full-time job a few weeks ago....
I'm sorry, readers, I'm just not up for a sob story when I have my own.
How much was this guy drawing down?
I never received a damn cent, and the savings are almost gone.
That's why after today the Globe becomes a budget casualty. Think of it as an
Independence Day, Glob.
The depth and duration of the recent recession have twisted a system designed to help people through short bouts of unemployment, officials said. Normally, unemployed workers in Massachusetts do not collect benefits for an entire year....
But there is plenty of money for.... aw, forget it.
I'm sick of repeating myself over and over again.
But with federal extensions making unemployed workers eligible for nearly two years of benefits.... Workers who were unemployed more than a year, and who took a short-term job during that time, have benefits based on the wages from that temporary position, which are often less than their permanent wages.
Chi Ming Lau, 48, of Billerica was laid off from his manufacturing job in October 2008. Nearly a year later, in September, he was called back for three weeks. When he refiled his unemployment claim a few weeks later, the callback cost him a quarter of his benefits, slicing his weekly check to $475 from $624 a week. “I should just have sat home and done nothing,’’ said Lau.
Well, at least I have done something.
Worker advocates such as Greater Boston Legal Services and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO said they are hearing from more and more workers who sustained deep benefit cuts because they took part-time or temporary work over the past year. “Unemployment is supposed to get people through these tough times, not make it harder,’’ said Tim Sullivan, spokesman for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. “This is punishing the people who went out and did the right thing.’’
That's the AmeriKan way, isn't it?
The Patrick administration has been pressing Congress for months to change the law and correct the situation. As early as November, state labor officials sent a letter to congressional leaders to make them aware of the problem and to push for a fix....
Yeah, but banks, Israel, and war-looters get their money.... sigh.
US Senator John F. Kerry, meanwhile, has cosponsored legislation to fix the problem.
Yeah, and how is that legislation languishing, John?
The Massachusetts Democrat is also seeking to extend federal unemployment benefits, which expire at the end of this month, and include provisions to stop penalizing people for working.
In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee chairman, Max Baucus, Kerry cited an unnamed Billerica electrician whose benefits were slashed to $400 from $678 a week because he worked part time as security guard. Workers, Kerry wrote, are being “discouraged from working part-time or losing benefits from working part-time - exactly the opposite of what should happen in an economic downturn.’’
I'm just discouraged anyway -- especially when I see people drawing more unemployment in a week than I ever did working for a check.
So how is the bill coming?
Sara Scott, 36, of Somerville, was laid off just over a year ago. She took a three-week temporary job in May, processing applications for a charity. She earned nearly $1,500. When she recently called the state unemployment office to file for an extension, she learned that her benefits, now $468 a week, could be cut because of that job....
Government looking to SAVE MONEY anyway it can!!
“It’s incredibly stressful,’’ she said. “I thought I knew how I was going to pay my rent. I thought we were supposed to work when we could.’’
Just a "glitch."
Turns out a HELL of a lot of people are NOT LISTENING to GOVERNMENT -- and WHO can BLAME THEM?
"Cities straining for census returns; Smaller towns getting forms in" by Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff | April 7, 2010
The pace of life may be leisurely in tiny Bernardston, a sleepy town in Western Massachusetts, but residents are anything but slow when it comes to filling out their census forms....
Ahoy there, readers!!!! Straight from the county!
Meanwhile, census officials in Boston and Lawrence are struggling to break the 50 percent participation mark....
Oh, we are MORE CIVIC-MINDED than the great Hub?
Yer kidding, right, Glob?
It is a meaningful exercise: The Brookings Institution estimates that Massachusetts is likely to receive more than $2,000 in federal aid for each person who fills out the census. But the communities that most need the money are often the slowest to respond. “It’s much harder in urban areas than in suburban areas’’ to get people involved, said Boston Councilor Felix G. Arroyo, chairman of the Special Committee on the 2010 Census....
That is because of the higher concentration of illegals for one thing.
Many wonder if the city will be able to top its 2000 participation rate of 59 percent. A poor census showing could lead not only to decreased federal funding but elimination of a couple of congressional seats in Massachusetts.
That can ONLY HELP the NATION!
The federal government uses the census to determine the official size of the US population and decide state funding for a variety of programs related to schools, health care centers, housing agencies, and more. According to the data released Monday, many rural areas in central and western Massachusetts had some of the highest census participation rates....
Yeah, hoo-ray for us.
Secretary of State William Galvin, the state’s designated census coordinator, said he is also worried about low participation rates in Everett, Chelsea, and Lowell, all of which have large immigrant populations that may not have legal citizenship.
Yeah, but if I point that out I'm a racist, right?
Holly St. Clair, who tracks census data at the Metropolitan Regional Planning Council, said cities such as Boston and Lawrence face the same hurdles as in the past, including counting hard-to-reach immigrant populations who fear deportation. There are also new challenges, she said, like tallying college students, who generally communicate electronically, not by snail mail. Getting an accurate count of residents in neighborhoods hit hard by foreclosure is also problematic. Foreclosure victims often have moved in with relatives or friends, making it hard to track them down....
Yeah, no bailout there, huh?
Each state’s census tally will also determine the number of congressional seats apportioned to the state, which may also affect a state’s allocations. A significant population decline could cost the state a seat or two. “In many ways, this is a race against other states,’’ said Geoff Beckwith, executive director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association.
I love competing against my fellow citizen to rip them off, don't you?
Beckwith said the rain of recent weeks has not helped boost returns, but said Boston’s outreach effort will be a model in terms of large US cities. At the moment, Boston’s 47 percent participation rate is behind similar-size cities, such as San Francisco (55 percent) and Atlanta (50 percent). Towns like Rochester, a zero-stoplight enclave in southeastern Massachusetts, are helping push Massachusetts’ return rate up. Nearly three-quarters of Rochester’s 5,400 residents have returned their census forms. Naida Parker, the town clerk, said residents view the census as a pleasant civic responsibility....
I see it as a sign of acquiescence and compliance with tyranny.
I didn't always see it that way.
Oh, yeah, and about that unemployment:
Standing in the Senate Unemployment Line
Yeah, turns out you are STILL WAITING!
"Jobless benefits bill gets another chance in Senate; Measure expected to pass today" by Andrew Taylor, Associated Press | April 15, 2010
WASHINGTON — After weeks of partisan struggle that caused more than 400,000 people to miss unemployment checks, a bill restoring those benefits is on track to pass the Senate as early as today.
John Kerry really has a lot of pull, doesn't he?
The $18 billion measure would provide additional weeks of jobless benefits averaging $335 a week to people whose six months of state-paid benefits have run out. It’s a temporary extension through June 2 that gives lawmakers time to iron out a measure funding the program through the end of the year.
Un-flipping-real!
You have WAITED THIS LONG and now they give you a two-month reprieve and have to go through this all over again, huh?
Gee, banks, wars, and Israel get funded for the year.
With help from a single Republican, George Voinovich of Ohio, Democrats by a 60-to-40 vote beat back a challenge from Republicans seeking to force them to pay for the measure with new revenues or cuts in spending rather than adding costs to the $12.8 trillion national debt.
Several other programs have lapsed as well, which has meant that newly jobless people can’t sign up for federal health insurance subsidies and prompted the government to delay Medicare payments to doctors rather than imposing a 21 percent cut.
Yup, this government really cares about you, American.
Democrats said people living in flood plains can’t sign up for flood insurance or renew their policies, which has delayed mortgage lending and home sales. Yesterday’s key vote appears to have set the stage for the Senate to pass the bill today, which would give the House time to approve the measure this week.
Oh, so IT ISN'T DONE YET, huh?
And they wonder why Americans are pissed off?
Democrats had earlier lost the vote because Patrick Leahy of Vermont was in his home state attending a funeral, but he returned and Democrats prevailed on a revote. Specifically at issue in yesterday’s votes was whether to permit the measure to be financed by adding to the national debt. Under Senate rules, a successful GOP challenge could have required the chamber to come up with ways to pay for the measure. Democrats said deficit-financed jobless benefits are not only needed to help people unable to find work but are one of the most effective ways to pump up the still-struggling economy.
Not only are they incredible, they are NUTS!
Think of the WARPED LOGIC there, readers!
Yeah, let's TAKE TAX DOLLARS (actually, borrowing on them which will come with interest payments, but....) from the FEWER and FEWER WORKERS and BUSINESSES and give them to UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE so they can SPEND IT!
How about GETTING RID of the TAXES and CREATING JOBS instead?!!!
Nope, not from government!
“It’s an investment in our economy,’’ bill sponsor Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, said. “Unemployment benefits help our unemployed neighbors. And in helping our neighbors, unemployment benefits also help to keep open the neighborhood grocery store and the neighborhood gas station.’’
All I can say is INSANE, readers!!
I EXPECTED LYING from Repuglicans after eight years of Bush; I cannot register my disappointment to see DemocraPs behaving the same way!
Additional weeks of jobless benefits have traditionally been routinely extended during times of high unemployment and have previously always been paid for by adding to the national debt.
But with the deficit easily surpassing $1 trillion — and with the issue of deficits and debt of increasing concern to voters — many Republicans have changed their minds and are now insisting they be financed by spending cuts elsewhere in the $3.7 trillion federal budget....
Yeah, but the WARS, BANK BAILOUTS, CORPORATE WELFARE, and checks to Israel are out.
--more--"
Still standing in line, 'eh, American?
