Your tax dollars:
Obama stimulus funds are being made available to VISTA so they can employ cadres of workers to help in refugee resettlement among other things. From the Arizona Republic:
The cavalry has arrived just in time, at least for some financially strapped non-profit and government agencies.
They’re not on horseback, but the cadre of paid Volunteers In Service To America workers could not have come at a better time. The workers are paid a stipend funded by the federal economic-stimulus package to work with youth programs in Phoenix; help the Mesa United Way raise funds; teach refugees life skills; and assist Goodyear as it cracks down on neighborhood blight.
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For agencies with little funding for employees, the VISTA program has been a godsend, said the Rev. Donna Buckles, a VISTA program supervisor for Refugee Resettlement of Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest.
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The state Department of Economic Security intends to hire 20 VISTA workers to assist with refugee-resettlement projects this fall. One project includes training refugees in child care so others can go to work; another involves canning foods that would normally be thrown away.
Hurry, one and all—get your free government money!