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Aug 13, 2010]Work, Shelter and Food
Jobless and footloose? Or maybe you've lost your home to foreclosure?
ISKCON's New Talavan Community has an organic gardening volunteers program; other ISKCON farm communities in USA and around the world have similar programs. Gita Nagari Farm, a 350 acre farm in Port Royal, Pennsylvania welcomes visitors and volunteers, and in addition, offers a small allowance for certain positions. In Australia, New Govardhana in New South Wales accepts WWOOF program participants.Jobless claims jump to 5-month high
The number of first-time filers for unemployment insurance rose to the highest level since late February last week, according to a weekly government report released Thursday.
There were 484,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Aug. 7, up 2,000 from an upwardly revised 482,000 the previous week, according to the Labor Department's weekly report.
That's the highest number since the week ended Feb. 20, when 486,000 people filed for first-time benefits.
Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had expected new claims to fall to 465,000.
Initial claims have been stuck in the the mid- to upper- 400,000s since November.
"It's just more of the same," said John Canally, an economist with LPL Financial. "This data doesn't break out of the range, and that's going to continue until companies can see their way to adding some jobs." go to story
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So you are thinking in that way. "How I shall provide this population?" That is the old woman's crying. Without sufficient knowledge. We do not believe in this, all rascaldom. We believe in God. If God can create... just like animals. They do not cry. They're increasing. The hogs and dogs, even lower animals... This is demonic economy. A man is holding thousands of acres of land and he's thinking of overpopulation. Why not he distributes the thousands of acres of land to the people? They would produce their own food. That is the, that is the defect of so-called socialism. But here we give a right type of socialism. more
Employment for the jobless
excerpt from conversation on train to Allahabad, January 11, 1977
RAMESVARA: Say, in America, most people live in the cities, and they already have their job, and they are set in their ways.
PRABHUPADA: So those who are unemployed, let them come to us. We shall give them employment.
RAMESVARA: Yes. But for the mass population...
PRABHUPADA: Well, gradually you will increase and...
RAMESVARA: We have to give them something that they can do in their home.
PRABHUPADA: Oh, yes.
RAMESVARA: Because it is impractical to think that they will give up everything and move into the temple.
PRABHUPADA: No, those who are unemployed, let them come. We shall give them employment.
JAGADISH: On the farm.
PRABHUPADA: Yes.
RAMESVARA: For those who are unemployed, that's attractive.
JAGADISH: But for those who are already employed...
RAMESVARA: But most people have jobs.
PRABHUPADA: Eh?
RAMESVARA: Many people already have their jobs and their families.
PRABHUPADA: All right, let them not come, but those who are unemployed, let them come.
RAMESVARA: But what...? For those people who already have their jobs, instead of...
PRABHUPADA: That job... They will be very soon jobless. Don't worry. [laughs] They will come. They will be obliged to come. Now they have got job, but as the days are advancing in Kali-yuga, they'll be jobless.
HARI-SAURI: So we can expect that material conditions are going to become very much worse than this.
PRABHUPADA: They may come or not. We don't care for it. Let us establish an ideal society.
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