COUNTY TO SEND `SKELETON' WELFARE PLAN TO STATE.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer The county's basic plan to get welfare recipients off public aid and into jobs was approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors, although members complained that it is far from complete. The supervisors are sending the ``skeleton'' plan, known as CalWORKS, to state officials to meet a Saturday deadline. While they agreed to approve the plan, the supervisors told Department of Public Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales Director Lynn Bayer they want more specifics on how the department will help welfare recipients with child care, transportation, job creation and post-employment services. ``I know the state only wants a skeleton skeleton, in anatomy skeleton, in anatomy, the stiff supportive framework of the body. The two basic types of skeleton found among animals are the exoskeleton and the endoskeleton. . That's not good enough for me,'' Supervisor Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. told Bayer. ``We need to be the support mechanism to help them get back on track.'' Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. agreed. ``We don't have it tied down with a nice bow and rose on top of the package. We need to acknowledge our limitations,'' said Yaroslavsky. ``We are talking about lives and livelihoods here. Let's do it right the first time.'' As of Jan. 1, the clock started ticking ticking a coat color pigmentation pattern in which hairs of one color are distributed in small groups throughout the background color, e.g. Australian cattle dog. Called also speckling. for California welfare recipients, who face a five-year lifetime limit on receiving the aid. Recipients in the short term have 18 to 24 months to find a job or lose their benefits. The supervisors have asked Bayer to give them updates on various aspects of the welfare plan during their board meetings through the spring and summer. Last month advocates for the poor cautioned the supervisors that DPSS DPSS Diode-Pumped Solid-State (laser) DPSS Department of Public Social Services DPSS Distributed-Parallel Storage System DPSS Datapath Synthesis System DPSS Data Processing Subsystem DPSS Digital Precision Strike Suite would have a hard time finding jobs for the 60,000 people it hopes to have in jobs by June 1998 and had not come up with concrete plans for outreach, child care and transportation. Bayer acknowledged that she was presenting the board with only a framework and promised to provide specifics on their areas of concerns. ``The plans that we are going to roll out to you are going to be very specific, extremely specific on how the child-care program is going to work,'' Bayer said. Anthony Thigpenn of the Metropolitan Alliance said it's unfair to set the clock ticking One increment, or pulse, of the CPU clock. See clock speed and clock. on the welfare time limits when the county does not have its program up and running. |
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