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CapitlJl News Service
lANSING - In the wake of a
10.2 percent unemployment
rate, Michigan's plentiful job
less residents y face another
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A proposal that would revise
unemployment insurance
benefits would mean leaner
budgets over the next two years
fo the state's jobless.
The bills being considered by
. both the Senate and the House
I ould rein titute a olle-week
, Bu lne
retention
I agrued
waitin period for unemploy
ment insurance claimants and
limit the maximum benefits to
up to 65 percent of a worker's
weekly pay, a maximum $230 per
week.
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Debate jobs p'l(og,ram
To involve" community organiza tions
By MI T. Be tt
CapitlJl News Service HEALTH CARE Co�y
LANSING - People who . Glazer said that extending
want job and communities health care benefits could be the
needing workers could be I most expensive part of the
brought t�ether .by a p�ogratD program. The average. �ener�
under consideration, said Lou assistance welfare recipient lS
Glazer, deputy director of the .' on welfare for only six months,
Commerce Department. while a: worker would be receiv
. The progr891 was announ� ins heal e benefits perhaps
lD Gov. James J. Blanchard.s a year or longer on the program.
State of the S�� addr� and 15' Community-based organiza-
called the. Michigan �eighbor- tions would be closely involved
hood Builder A liance. It in setting up the work programs
wou}d . provide jobs for welcare aJ¥I determining what services
r ecrprents, ages 18 to 20, communities needed. The work
�evitaJinng �mmunities suffer- would range anywhere from car-
109 economic proble'!ls. The pentry and plumbing to child
wor�ers ould continue to anc;isenior citizen care, to typing
recerve �lfare health benefits and organizing paperwork.
as well, S81� Glazer.. . I Glazer said if the program
'W� basically believe the �st pa sed in the Legislature, it
experience unemployed kid wo d be implemented by Oct.
should ha\'C once they've le�t 1. n estimated 7,000 youths
home should n<>! be �lf�e, 1t wo Id be Iigible, although
should !>e work, he said. Our ba ed on previous programs .
sens� IS that the ost ap- 10 ut 40 percent wouldn't par- .
propnate form of governmental . I
assistance, and I think also the e:�mmeDdation by the
ost effective form of training. C mmunity . Economic
is on-the-job training. We're p
d . . this . b." Development Ta k orce, a
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non-governmental group made
up of members of community
based organizations, were con
sidered ill discus ion of the
program. The organizations in
dicated that while economic
development in some com
munities was � in others it
was \'Cry low to nonexistent.
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'What we saw in other states
told us that community-based
organizations 'Were among the
most successful operators in
causing development in lower-.
to-moderate-income com
munities," said Ric Kibbey, a
member of the Board of Com- .
munity Builder in Lansing and
a member of the t force.
esc are organizations that
haYe been out in the trenches
working on community
reviializ8tion for long time."
Rep. David C. Hollister,· D
Lansing, ha I_ been working
closely with the Commerce
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