No money for Christmas;Charitable organizations are fine but the help they'll give us is temporary. Think beyond the holidays, think of job assistance. Read on and find out about this government website that has thousands of jobs, employment, employment opportunities to end your job search.
A Matter of Getting Help and Also of Getting a Job
No money for Christmas; for some it doesn’t matter at all. They have been without money for so long they are well-prepared for it. Christmas-crunch among most families and even in some countries is nothing uncommon, they have been there before and they survived. However, there are the first-timers, those who are just beginning to feel the impact of the global economic crisis. They might be interested to know how others pulled themselves through each holiday season, coming out unscathed and ready to face another year of hope.
Right in the net you will read appeals for help on how their Christmas is going to be bleak because there’s no money. Some got laid-off; some are ill and disabled while others are Christmas wishes from children whose parents got divorced or left homeless by Katrina. Read on and you will feel this little lump in your throat. Read way down further and you’ll learn what information was shared as offers of help. Simply because these people are in that same boat and have learned how to manage each year with no money for Christmas.
The most popular suggestions these individuals came up with were some money making tips they resorted to in order to come up with a little extra for Christmas. Scavenging for some old magazines and newspapers from local beauty shops and doctor’s offices and selling these back to publishing houses for recycling. Weeding out old but still attractive and reusable old clothes, gadgets and what- have- you and selling them to thrift shops or dollar stores. Some clever entrepreneurs buy second hand clothes which they intend to sell in third world developing countries.
Other suggestions referred different institutions they can turn to for charity, food, old toys and old clothes during the holidays. However, these religious, civic and social organizations are mostly in the forefront only during holidays. After that, you will be back to where you were before, still distressed and at worst, destitute. Don’t you think it’s high time we aimed for something beyond the holidays? Haven’t you considered that our children will feel a lot better if we didn’t have to worry where the food will come from next?
There are about 1,000 government benefit and assistance programs available to help you and your family get back on your feet again. GovBenefits.gov which you can access via this link http://www.govbenefits.gov/govbenefits can provide you with a complete list of all government programs designed to help each and every sector of the community. Each program covers a specific sector including American Indians, Native Alaskans, refugees, immigrants and grantees of political asylums aside from the regular low income members of a community.
Employment Opportunities
To determine your eligibility, you can answer the questionnaire right in the web and the results section will produce the government program to suit you. For example, these data were used to generate a test result:
Number of persons living in the household: Five (5); Annual realizable income: $22,000 or roughly $12.00 per day, per person in food, clothing, shelter and basic utilities.
The mock eligibility test produced this result: Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals (JOLI). For this matter, a brief description of the program is detailed below:
Program Description- JOLI
The objective of the program is to test and evaluate ways of employment and business opportunities for individual who are receiving Temporary Assistance for Need Families (TANF). These TANF may come in the form of food stamps, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Unemployment Benefits assistance the family avails for its sustenance. JOLI strives to aid low income individuals gain income through self-employment, micro-enterprise, new business ventures and expansion of existing businesses through technical and financial assistance and non-traditional employment initiatives that lead to their economic self-sufficiency.
For more information please visit:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ocs/joli/index.html
Here are some more programs you can look into which are included among those listed in the website.
Refugee and Entrant Assistance - Wilson/Fish Programs
This program provides services and cash assistance to enable refugees to sustain themselves while in the process of seeking early employment. It aims to alleviate the level of their dependence on welfare and to promote coordination among service providers and resettlement agencies.
General Program Requirements
Qualified under this program are refugees who became US citizens via the grant of a political asylum as a result of being victimized by human trafficking. Common ethnicity involved here are the Amerasians, Cubans or Haitians.
For more information please visit:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr
Managing Agency
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/