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  Walking Away From a Win-Win-Win
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Last EditedArmyDem  Sep 05, 2010 07:49pm
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News DateFriday, September 3, 2010 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionSubsidized Jobs Slated to End Soon Are Helping Families, Businesses, and Communities Weather the Recession

By Liz Schott and LaDonna Pavetti, Ph.D.

September 2, 2010

An emergency jobs program through which 37 states have provided subsidized jobs for nearly 250,000 otherwise unemployed parents and youth — helping families, businesses, and communities across America weather the recession — will end September 30 unless the Senate joins the House in voting to extend it.

The TANF Emergency Fund, which President Obama and Congress created in last year’s Recovery Act, has given states over $1 billion to operate subsidized jobs programs that have proved successful on multiple fronts. The fund has been a “win-win-win,” helping unemployed families find work, businesses expand capacity in a difficult economic environment, and local economies cope with the recession. Without the fund, some 120,000 young people would not have had summer jobs and some 130,000 parents would not have had jobs to provide for their families’ basic needs; they would also have lost a valuable opportunity to build skills for the future. (Appendix Table 1 lists the number of job placements by state.) [1]

As the Emergency Fund’s September 30 expiration looms, states are ramping down their subsidized jobs programs, stopping new placements and giving notice that existing jobs will end. (While some of the subsidized positions were summer youth jobs that were slated to end in late August, most were for unemployed parents.) For example, Illinois plans to send notices shortly after Labor Day to 26,000 workers participating in Put Illinois to Work to inform them that their jobs will end on September 30. In San Francisco, where all except a few hundred subsidies will end on September 30, letters have already gone out to employers and workers.
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