A Good Job Is Hard to Find
I have a piece up on Alternet today on women, work, and welfare--A Good Job Is Hard to Find:
President Bush is betting $500 million that poor women are better off having a man than holding a job.American women are 40 percent more likely than men to be poor. In fact, 90 percent of welfare recipients are women. While the Bush administration pours money into ineffective marriage-promotion programs, it ignores what may be the best bet for women to lift themselves out of poverty -- "men's work."
Check it out, if you're interested...
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Hey there. Love the blog. Keep up the awesome work and congratulations on the Guardian attention!
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Providing women the opportunity on welfare to support themselves through good-paying jobs is a much better idea -- and a much longer-term solution -- than these silly marriage encouragement programs. Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense Fund) has a program encouraging the entry of women into high-paying but traditionally male fields, including construction and contracting. Check it out: http://www.legalmomentum.org/issues/nontrad/index.shtml
Crafts Labour is approaching (if not already in by some standards) a shortage crisis in North America. Shades of "Rosie the Riveter" recruiting in World War 2, Canada at least has a swelling impetus to train/employ women in industrial work. Testimonials from already employed women pop up in magazines and newspapers and advertising campaigns. There's nothing like the smiling face of a woman with an upturned welder's mask for a hat shining at you from a billboard to warm the cockles of one's heart.
A warming badly needed after reading the chilling contents of your article.