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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Last year 300,000 domestic violence victims in desperate need of help were left unprotected in New York State, due to devastating budget cuts.
“Local domestic violence programs served over 63,000 people last year, and with the need increasing, we won’t survive another round of budget cuts,” said Michele McKeon, CEO of the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
This is a tragedy, of course, but it is not the only one.
A report released last Tuesday by the Human Services Council of New York shows that social programs relied upon by millions of state residents, have been drastically curtailed due to the $800 million in state funding cuts in the last two years.
We are talking about such basic services as child care and child welfare, youth and after-school programs, senior services, health programs, employment training and assistance, supportive housing, services for the homeless, and programs for people with disabilities. The list goes on and on.
“We have suffered devastating losses, while at the same time, poverty, hunger, and homelessness are at or near all-time highs,” said Allison Sesso, the Human Services Council deputy director. “The economy is not out of the woods yet, and government needs to take an active role. These programs need to be invested in, not cut.”
The HSC report, titled “A Lose-Lose Proposition: The Economic Impact of Lost Human Services in New York State,” makes clear that the cuts have a direct impact on the state’s economy and employment situation.
“Not only have the people who rely on these services been harmed but 27,000 human services sector jobs have been lost,” the report said.
Also, says the report, human services programs provide nearly 1.25 million jobs, buttress local economies by purchasing more than a billion dollars in goods and services, and makes it possible for parents and others to hold jobs through child care, after-school and elder care programs.
“This report demonstrates that human services matter to everyone,” said Michael Stoller, executive director of HSC.
Mark Hurwitz, deputy director of Project Renewal — a group that works to move addicted or mentally ill homeless men and women from the streets or shelters to health, homes, and jobs — says fighting homelessness has become much more of an uphill battle.
“Between the hardships our clients are experiencing as a result of the economic crisis and the funding cuts, things have become much worse,” Hurwitz said.
“Last year we moved 453 shelter residents to permanent homes and if it were not for the cuts in rental assistance programs we would have moved many more.”
The city’s decision last April to cut Advantage, a rental assistance program, after the state stopped funding it, dealt a heavy blow to Project Renewals’ efforts.
posted in: EmployerNews, New York, News
Monday, August 02, 2010
Top cities for nursing jobs in July 2010 were Cleveland, Atlanta, Washington DC, Las Vegas and Chicago.
No single metro area in the US attracted more than 3% of the nursing jobs we tracked nationwide, so the chart I’ve included in this post shows the top 20 metros rather than the top five.
It’s not surprising that nursing jobs are distributed evenly across the country. Favorites for retirees like Las Vegas, Honolulu and Phoenix figure in the top twenty, but Cleveland, Kansas City and Louisville do also.
I examined a random sample of nursing jobs to see if there were other interesting facts that I could glean. I’m not a medical professional, of course, so in this case my observations are limited to what I get from reading job titles. 80% of the positions were for active duty nursing care in medical institutions. About 10% were for management or supervisory positions and another 10% or so were for home care positions. If you hire or recruit nurses I’d be glad to share more detail with you and get your feedback. You can find me at smehta [at] nimblecat.com.Read Full Article
posted in: Blogging, EmployerNews, New York, News, Washington DC
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
As desperate Democratic lawmakers cast about for ways to create jobs from Capitol Hill, a 1970s-era jobs program is getting a fresh look.
Known as CETA—the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act—the program provided direct government funding to hire temporary workers. At its peak in 1978, it had created 725,000 public service jobs and shaved roughly one point off the unemployment figure.
A one-point drop in the unemployment rate—not to mention the ancillary benefit of hundreds of thousands of people having money to spend on other goods and services—would give politicians something concrete to point to before the mid-term elections.
“That’s certainly one of the options being discussed, the CETA program back in the 70s,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told HuffPost in a recent interview, when asked if leadership was considering direct government hiring as a partial answer to the deepening unemployment.
But skepticism abounds, both among Democrats and economists. There are much more efficient ways to create jobs—or prevent them from being lost—such as direct aid to states that would otherwise layoff teachers, cops, firefighters and bureaucrats. That doesn’t require creating a new bureaucracy, it’s just a matter of cutting the check.
posted in: New York
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