Is the government program that is bad, or the fact that WalMart assists their employees from finding and utilizing these programs?
I partcipated in a conference on Child Care options for employees. It was discovered that in my area there are 7 different subsidized programs run on a private, local, state, and federal government level.
Child Care was identified as one of the biggest hurdles for poor people in improving their lives. This is especially true for single moms.
Human Resource Managers reported:
*Employees who turned down $1 per hour pay raises so they would not lose their child care benefits. Turns out there was a different program that would have helped this person, the employee and the HR Mgr. had no idea it was out there.
*Employees who remain single to avoid losing their benefits.
Most of the top HR managers had no clue all of the programs that were out there to help their employees. The two companies that did seem to be able to help?
Ticketmaster and WalMart.
I spend a lot of my work time helping small and medium size companies be competitive. It is my job to point them towards programs that can help.
I give advice along the lines of "build that new facility over there and qualify for an enterprise zone tax break. Hire from this pool and qualify for a welfare to work credit, employ these people and they qualify for a federal job re-training program." Am I doing something wrong by publicizing these government programs?