Unemployment

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This paper discusses the importance of job training in ending the cycle of poverty. It describes the long-term and short-term social problems that can be caused by unemployment. It then focuses on the role that social work can have in assisting those who are unemployed. It looks at the issues that social work can address and how these interventions can direct the unemployed person to gain additional skills.

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"The need for more job training is partially reflected in the success of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) which was designed to reduce long-term welfare dependency by increasing self-sufficiency through employment. Although, "at the national level, welfare participation has declined substantially, and the employment and earnings of poor single mothers--the group most likely to receive public welfare benefits--have increased while their poverty rates have fallen," this has not been true of rural workers (Whitener, Gibbs & Kusmin, 2003). Rural workers have lower education levels, less access to child care and public transportation, and above all less access to critical intervention by caring social work. A crucial element to ending the so-called vicious cycle or culture of poverty is addressing the psychological and social causes of poverty, to enable workers to provide the labor market with needed skills, as opposed to suggest that they merely need to take transient jobs where they are easily replaceable. Better jobs also mean jobs that provide more money for child care and transportation."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "About ESTEEM" (2005). Urban Pathways. Retrieved 2 Mar 2007 at http://www.urbanpathways.org/training.asp
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• Whitener, Leslie A, Robert Gibbs, Lorin Kusmin. (Jun 2003). "Rural Welfare Reform: Lessons Learned." USDA Features: Amber Waves. Retrieved 2 Mar 2007 at http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June03/Features/RuralWelfareReforme.htm

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