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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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