Your tax dollars:
Thanks again for the Shelbyville sleuthing by both paper and its readers. Hat tip to Blulitespecial (again!). Here is a link to the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s special deals for refugees. If you go to our category ‘where to find information’ we had previously written about how refugees can get cars, houses and businesses with special government savings programs and microenterprise loans.
However, I don’t think we have ever written about the Employment Subsidy Program.
The Employment Subsidy Program assists refugees who have experienced long-term difficulties with assimilation. The program increases rates of refugee employment and decreases rates of refugee welfare utilization by providing employment services to unemployed refugees and wage subsidies to employers who hire refugees.
This is a lead in to another sentence in this ORR report, but it pretty much sums up the problem for American citizens who question the use of their tax dollars to bring the world to America.
ORR, seeking to assure that refugees are welcomed in their U.S. communities of resettlement with sufficient services to begin their new lives…..
…..will have all sorts of government goodies available to them (that’s my ending to the sentence). In our public meeting in Hagerstown last fall this was of the greatest concern to those questioning refugee resettlement: what about our own jobless, poor and elderly?
We have a whole category called ‘September forum’ about the Hagerstown public meeting on refugees. If you want to follow it, please start reading at the earliest post in that category.