COUNTY WILL ASSIST THE JOBLESS LOSS OF ASSISTANCE HURTING SOME FAMILIES.Byline: - Michelle Rester About 19,000 Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County families might start the new year with less government assistance as they come to the end of their five-year lifetime limit spelled out in federal and state welfare-reform laws. To ease the pain, county officials have set aside more than $15 million to continue some of the services that offer paid internships and work experience to mostly single mothers trying to find full-time full-time adj. Employed for or involving a standard number of hours of working time: a full-time administrative assistant. full jobs. The county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. also is prepared to spend $3 million in emergency housing funds to help those who lose their homes as a result of the cutoff of funds. ``Our board has been very generous in approving $15.1 million in special services for these time-limited participants,'' said Margaret Quinn, who heads the county's welfare-to-work program, known as California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids, or CalWORKs. ``We have to recognize the people that have not been successful thus far, and we need to look at some of the barriers.'' Continued services will include programs that give paychecks and work experience, county internships and job skills training, as well as language classes for immigrants, Quinn said. ``What we want to see happen is that we link these individuals up with our special programs and give them a helping hand for another six more months to find a job,'' she said. County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke The name Burke (from Irish Gaelic de Burca, of Norman origin). In English the meaning of the name Burke is "fortified hill." See also Berkley. Places Australia
``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 has been advising participants and thoroughly reviewing cases in order to ensure that any legally applicable exemptions are executed,'' Burke has said. ``However, many individuals have not been taking advantage of the workshops and opportunities for case review.'' Public Social Works officials say many of the adults at risk of losing their benefits in January might actually have an extra month or more but are unaware they can apply for extensions. A computer program is in the process of calculating possible ``clock-stoppers'' for welfare recipients throughout Los Angeles County. Those eligible for the extensions include people with a variety of circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or , including someone who went into some form of treatment, was a victim of domestic violence or had payments stopped for any length of time, officials said. A final-notice letter has been mailed to all who are at risk of losing benefits. The letter encourages applications for exemptions, officials said. |
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