Senior Community Service Employment Program

Budget slashed for jobs for older, low-income workers, By Walker Moskop, June 20, 2001, San Antonio Express-News: “Even with the food stamps she received, Sandy Hipp was barely making enough money when she lived on a minimum-wage salary working 24 hours a week at a senior apartment complex in Seguin. Then, in April, Congress slashed the funding for the program paying her wages, and her hours were cut back to 18. Hipp, 58, said she’ll have to find another job soon and will apply to work at a plant nursery in Seguin. For older, low-income jobseekers, the task of landing work is now a greater uphill climb. The Senior Community Service Employment Program, the national program that gives grants to organizations to train workers, connect them with employers and pay their wages, has seen its budget slashed from $825 million for 2010-11 to $450 million for 2011-12 – a 45 percent cut…”