♥break, aka How My Job Sucked Today

#fb Cash Aid and Infant Mortality

Apply for Pubic Assistance On-Line!

Let’s get started Here are some things to know before you start the application. We will be asking you questions about you and the people in your home. We will need information on how much money you have and the bills you pay. It is helpful if you have a pay stub and the bills […]

To Welfare or Not To Welfare

If you qualify for public assistance – should you take it? That is a really difficult question. PRIDE: There are some people who are too proud to use coupons to save money, there is no way they would ever admit that they need money. Privacy: You have to give a lot of information to the government […]

Yes, I really do #fb

spend my free time reading articles on Homelessness, Poverty, Urban Blight and Client Advocacy. It is my hobby – and I am not ashamed. I did feel a little bad whan Jackie was 11 years old and told me she had seen more crack pipes than anyone else she knew, and asked why I worked with […]

Welfare in casinos?

Sonya Keith (@sonyakeith) has shared a Tweet with you: “sonyakeith: RT @KFINEWS: Governor Schwarzenegger has ordered an end to welfare spending in casinos and on cruise ships. http://bit.ly/9Y1W4Z” ♥♥♥♥♥ I have been telling you – there re NO RULES about how the cash aid has to be spent. Could we please write some guidelines and […]

Welfare Warriors and Mommy Bloggers

@helpamotherout @jessicagottlieb Today we are going to explore groups of people who found a way to use their voices to 1. Be heard 2. Change their corner of the world to make it nicer for everyone. Let’s start with my favorite combination of these two groups: http://www.helpamotherout.org/” It can take an average of $1,100 a year […]

Today’s desk sign.

I am frustrated today. “I can’t learn anything, I am pregnant!” “You won’t give me more money for my new baby?!?!” “I don’t see why I have to look for work if I have to take maternity leave in over half a year”. Here is my frustration – you are in CalWORKS because you […]

FRAUD! How to See it and Report it …

(800) 349-9970 Money that is mispent here is stolen from the needy. Examples:

Politics and Welfare -Myths

CalWORKS is growing fast and contributing to the Budget Deficit in California Since it began, CalWORKS has added $12 Billion to the state General Fund. This is because the funds have been shifted from TANF and Maintenance Effort accounts into the General Funds. (Basically, CalWORKS funds are not all needed by CalWORKS so they are diverted […]

CALWORKS is not a political football

So stop tossing it around like the program is a pastime or a toy. Seriously! I get that picking on the poor (who are the least likely to vote) is super easy. No one wants to be them and it scares us so we despise them. Sometimes we feel that we are successful only because we […]