A recent drive around Phoenix for me, made me realize the number of homeless people panhandling for money on street corners. At some point during a calendar year in the Untired States, 1.5 million are homeless looking for a place to sleep and food to eat (Katel). Of this 1.5 million, 80 percent or around 1.2 million are considered transitionally homeless, meaning that they have had a run of bad luck and are homeless for a short amount of time, usually around a couple months. Imagine if instead of 1.5 million homeless individuals across our nation, there was only 300,000 thousand. This group of transitionally homeless, which is usually devoid of major addiction or mental health problems, are relatively easier to help that those who are chronically
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Being homeless should not prevent someone from getting a job, in fact it should increase your chances of getting a job. In a period when “bottom tier jobs are disappearing” (Triplett), the “number of manufacturing jobs decreasing” (Katel) and many companies are going to other markets that have cheaper labor prices, it is hard for many to find a stable entry level job. Some people on this group, like newly divorced women who were professional stay at home moms, might not have the experience or qualifications need to get higher level jobs. Therefore, they have to start at the bottom and work their way up the company chain. Along that note, free or low cost job training should be offered in these public housing areas to help these would be workers reach a higher paying job. The more money that they make, the easier it is to be self-sufficient and stop relying on aid to live. For example there is “a new program funded by United Way” that “offers job-search help to people in imminent danger of homelessness" (Katel). Another great example was putting unemployed men to work on federally funded projects like the Civilian Conservation Corps that was suggested to Congress by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 (Katel). A program similar to this could help put many of the homeless to work and could also be used to help build the public housing projects to house
Being homeless should not prevent someone from getting a job, in fact it should increase your chances of getting a job. In a period when “bottom tier jobs are disappearing” (Triplett), the “number of manufacturing jobs decreasing” (Katel) and many companies are going to other markets that have cheaper labor prices, it is hard for many to find a stable entry level job. Some people on this group, like newly divorced women who were professional stay at home moms, might not have the experience or qualifications need to get higher level jobs. Therefore, they have to start at the bottom and work their way up the company chain. Along that note, free or low cost job training should be offered in these public housing areas to help these would be workers reach a higher paying job. The more money that they make, the easier it is to be self-sufficient and stop relying on aid to live. For example there is “a new program funded by United Way” that “offers job-search help to people in imminent danger of homelessness" (Katel). Another great example was putting unemployed men to work on federally funded projects like the Civilian Conservation Corps that was suggested to Congress by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 (Katel). A program similar to this could help put many of the homeless to work and could also be used to help build the public housing projects to house