Unemployment is a global issue
I am from Belgium (the Old World).
With my friend, Ed, we have launched J4J at http://www.jobless4jobless.org.
We have chosen for a self-supporting approach to fight unemployment.
There is a huge pool of idle skills available when you put all jobless people together.
Why not help other jobless with free advice to develop their ideas to viable and sustainable projects?
Why not use this community pool to take external challenges from for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and spend that income as seed money for projects which evolved out of the community?
Such a self-supporting concept would really empower the jobless and make them more self-reliant.
J4J would like to cooperate and exchange with other jobless communities.
Let us take global action.
Yes, I agree. Many are suffering from layoff. I can see exactly why Charlie Crist would have stepped up and committed to an SB6 veto – because he's smart. SB6 would have incentivized test scores, and if anything has been proven over the last 8 years or so, is that standardized testing – guess just what – doesn't work! How absurd that a Republican would actually think that a few taxpayer funded pay day loans into a flawed idea wouldn't be a good idea. (Actually…that kind of works both ways.) He sided with the arguments of, you'll never guess it, the teachers. How foolish to side with the experts.