Stimulas Money and the Homeless
With Homelessness and Poverty a problem in our community and the recent revelation of one of the Highest Poverty rates our country has seen since the 1960's. We are sad to say that the Homeless Prevention Program in our community has had to cut and remove people from its program. This was money recieved from the Recovery Act. Fort Smith was awarded 1.3 Million dollars for Homeless Prevention and has currently spent 473,000. Those running the program were informed they were now out of money until they recieve more funding in July of 2011 this means that those who were in the program will be dismissed. Many have already been calling us telling us it was their last month for housing asking to return to the Community Rescue Mission. While this concerns us there is a deeper problem here. Not the Government funding Housing but the lack of opportunities for people to be employed. Where are the jobs in our community? Good companies have shut down. Others have moved assembly lines to other parts of the nation or world. While our community is very charity conscious and alway helping those in these situations. We need to create our own recovery act and stimulas plan for our community. We have to find places to work. It may have all started on Wall street but it certainly has reached our local area. There is a shift of opportunities in our community. We need employment strategy and jobs for the community. Most of the stimulas money in our community hasnt created jobs but has only kept jobs through projects designated. Keep all the homeless and poor in your prayers and let us find ways to recreate a good economy in the River Valley.
Brian
Brian
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