Trying to salvage President Obama's trade agenda, Republican leaders in Congress plan to vote again Thursday on legislation giving the president fast-track negotiating authority, sidestepping House Democrats' opposition and leaving the future of a worker-assistance program uncertain.
The threat of military strikes forced the removal of international aid workers, crippling assistance programs.
The United States has a "trade adjustment assistance" program for workers who have lost their jobs because of trade.
But the White House joined Congressional Democrats to say that the trade pacts would not advance unless Republicans, who control the House, help pass an extension of a trade-adjustment assistance program benefiting workers who lose jobs when companies move operations overseas.
The study focuses on five types of coping strategies that applicants may rely on, including: (1) government transfers: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); Workers' Compensation; and Unemployment Insurance (UI 2, (2) employment and earnings of the spouse, (3) changing living arrangements, (4) borrowing from credit, and (5) liquidation of housing assets3.
Both the House and Senate versions — expansions of the Labor Department's Trade Adjustment Assistance program for manufacturing workers — would increase funding for retraining and help unemployed workers hang on to their health insurance during a period of joblessness.
A widely available but often ignored corporate perk — the employee assistance program — can help workers who are suddenly facing a layoff, as well as those who worry that the same fate will befall them.
The Entertainment Industry Referral and Assistance Center, an employee assistance program for industry workers and their families, says it sees one to two methamphetamine addicts a day.
Mrs. Boyd, 28, is a social worker with Corporate Counseling Associates in New York, an employee assistance program.
Many companies refer troubled workers to employee assistance programs, which provide counseling or refer them to therapists or other programs.
There are societal considerations as well as moral ones: Food workers use public assistance programs (including, ironically, SNAP or food stamps), at higher rates than the rest of the United States work force.
