Forced budget cuts could hurt job seekers in Idaho
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BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) - The Idaho Department of Labor could lose up to $4 million in grants which helps find jobs for people around the state.
The agency could also be forced to layoff 85 workers which officials say would be done through attrition.
The department would also have to cut back on job search workshops which help people with resume preparations. While the agencies would still function like normal, there would be less people to help job seekers.
"Knowing how bad it is and how many people are on unemployment I think it's going to hurt a lot," said Ben Pierce, an unemployed resident from Boise. "This place helps the most...it's a good crutch to lean on. So, to have this and knock it away it's like playing Jenga - things could all come down."
Piece just moved to Boise and has been looking for a job for more than a month. Others we talked with feel this is the wrong time to be cutting funding for job placement programs especially since the recession is still fresh in everyone's mind.
Even if the federal cuts happen it won't come all at once. There is still a chance for the funding to be restored if Congress can come to an agreement.
The agency could also be forced to layoff 85 workers which officials say would be done through attrition.
The department would also have to cut back on job search workshops which help people with resume preparations. While the agencies would still function like normal, there would be less people to help job seekers.
"Knowing how bad it is and how many people are on unemployment I think it's going to hurt a lot," said Ben Pierce, an unemployed resident from Boise. "This place helps the most...it's a good crutch to lean on. So, to have this and knock it away it's like playing Jenga - things could all come down."
Piece just moved to Boise and has been looking for a job for more than a month. Others we talked with feel this is the wrong time to be cutting funding for job placement programs especially since the recession is still fresh in everyone's mind.
Even if the federal cuts happen it won't come all at once. There is still a chance for the funding to be restored if Congress can come to an agreement.
Grants, hmmm, what is a grant? Who pays for it? Where did the money come from?  hmmmm,Â
The Economy is going to have to take a paradigm shift, from maximizing profits on the backs of cheap labor to affordable living wage!
As Commerce cannot expect to get enough profits and tax revenue from minimum wage to run the state and private infrastructure for the Corporation? Â Â Diminishing rate of return?
  Happy days are here again??? They are going to have more labor camps with the company stores, more food banks to subsidize pay checks???
They have forgot there are three types of consumers that continue the economy, through Economic *system, the profit and loss sheets, *(SYSTEM, the most Quantitative and Qualitative, important word in Economics).
 a) system hasstructure, it contains parts (or components) that are directly or indirectly related to each other;
b) Â system hasbehavior, it contains processes that transform inputs into outputs (material, energy or data);
c) Â system hasinterconnectivity: the parts and processes are connected by structural and/or behavioral relationships.
The  system's structure and behavior is composed via subsystems and sub-processes to elementary parts and process steps,  through the GDP,  they are 1) supply, production, manufacturing, 2) Service types, real estates, sales outlets, Banks, bookstores, accounting, education, etc. and 3) the ultimate consumer, (people, aka labor and not cheap minimum labo as it is not going to supply profits and tax revenue.  Â
For some reason those advising have the heads buried, or with wall street, Â thinking gambling can run a nation by not going through the P&L sheets???
Actually the forced budget cuts may help Idaho job seekers by encouraging industry in higher cost states to move to Idaho to take advantage or our relatively lower operating costs and lower labor costs. Â
Predictions of doom and gloom will be popular for the next few months but in actuality this is just a return to financial status of only a few years prior. Sequestration forces government entities to live within their budgets and eliminates some gift type research grants and projects which have no promise of worthwhile results.
Sequestration may force government and non-government entities to rethink how they distribute welfare grants and what requirements are needed to filter from welfare rolls some of those who really do not qualify for welfare.  Grant administrators and welfare administrators may be forced to change strategy from giving out as much money as possible to one of assessing benefit from money placement and making sane decisions regarding who does and who does not receive moneys from a tighter controlled purse.
Bottom-line...this may not be near as bad as the doom-and-gloom types would have you believe. When you hear or see news articles about how this will ruin the world, try to evaluate those articles in light of who the article is intended to benefit and who the article is intended to hurt. Sometimes otherwise well meaning news media get subverted by others agenda, or by their own political leanings.