St. James Caring Center, MERS Goodwill offering Senior Community Service Employment Program
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The St. James Senior Center, in partnership with MERS Goodwill, are providing on the job training through the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which is designed to help people ages 55 and older update their job skills, build work experience, build confidence and continue to have economic security and wellbeing.
Working together, St. James Caring Center and MERS Goodwill are training participants in several positions to enable them to acquire transferrable work skills. During the training program, participants are paid through MERS Goodwill.
The United States Department of Labor is providing funding for the project.
Dec 31st, 2020 5 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Director, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget
Matthew is the director for the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. The Capitol building is seen in Washington, D.C. on December 29, 2020. DANIEL SLIM / Contributor / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
The president released a statement announcing that he would use his authority to request that Congress rescind wasteful spending from the bill.
The 5,593-page behemoth spending package was loaded with overspending, gimmicks, and dozens of unrelated other legislative provisions.
Trump proposing a robust rescission package and Congress passing it would be an important first step toward making controlling spending a priority.