You should not be required to just actively look for employment, but actually hold a job. There are plenty jobs out there, as well as voluntarily opportunities. Certain labor intensive jobs should hold more weight. It is certainly not good enough to hold a job, you must be working at it, not lazily going through the motions. Award a point system associated with jobs and supplement with health insurance, housing and food vouchers. You should get points for the hours you work and performance. Then the points can be used towards housing food or healthcare-your choice. So say you own your house, but you lost your job and need a hand up. You get a job landscaping (hard work). You get 500 points per week (2000 per month). Family health care is 750 points, housing 500 points, food 500 points. You need health care and food, but not housing. So 750/2000 goes to health care and 1250 is available for food (dollar value per points to be determined). At the end of the year, unused points may be converted toward purchasing a home, a car, or education classes or may be banked for a rainy day. So good management is rewarded. You can avail yourself of free community classes: gardening, cooking from scratch, sewing, plumbing, etc. to help you save money. Working at a hunger center/soup kitchen will also give you points. If you bring your 13 yo and up to help and learn, they will also get points. This will help them learn the importance of giving and also help the family. They also would have to actively learn and participate in the program. Land would be set aside for community gardens and children under 18 could participate in this endeavor by weeding, planting, harvesting. Land will be set aside in each neighborhood and in colder months a greenhouse will be erected by the participants. Each neighborhood can set up a bartering system for services. Children can be taught how to set up a web page for their community in school, in place of a study hall. They can earn points for successfully learning how to develop the site. There will be a limit to the length of time you may utilize these services, to be determined. The idea is it is not a hand out, but a hand up.

You should not be required to just actively look for employment, but actually hold a job. There are plenty jobs out there, as well as voluntarily opportunities. Certain labor intensive jobs should hold more weight. It is certainly not good enough to hold a job, you must be working at it, not lazily going through the motions. Award a point system associated with jobs and supplement with health insurance, housing and food vouchers. You should get points for the hours you work and performance. Then the points can be used towards housing food or healthcare-your choice. So say you own your house, but you lost your job and need a hand up. You get a job landscaping (hard work). You get 500 points per week (2000 per month). Family health care is 750 points, housing 500 points, food 500 points. You need health care and food, but not housing. So 750/2000 goes to health care and 1250 is available for food (dollar value per points to be determined). At the end of the year, unused points may be converted toward purchasing a home or car. So good management is rewarded. You can avail yourself of free community classes: gardening, cooking from scratch, sewing, plumbing, etc. to help you save money. Working at a hunger center/soup kitchen will also give you points. If you bring your 13 yo and up to help and learn, they will also get points. This will help them learn the importance of giving and also help the family. They also would have to actively learn and participate in the program. Land would be set aside for community gardens and children under 18 could participate in this endeavor by weeding, planting, harvesting. Land will be set aside in each neighborhood and in colder months a greenhouse will be erected by the participants. Each neighborhood can set up a bartering system for services. Children can be taught how to set up a web page for their community in school, in place of a study hall. They can earn points for successfully learning how to develop the site.

You should not be required to just actively look for employment, but actually hold a job. There are plenty jobs out there, as well as voluntarily opportunities. Certain labor intensive jobs should hold more weight. It is certainly not good enough to hold a job, you must be working at it, not lazily going through the motions. Award a point system associated with jobs and supplement with health insurance, housing and food vouchers.