First Nations band cuts welfare in favour of jobs.

Matt Gurney's article in the National Post outlines how a small Saskatchewan First Nations band, Little Pine, decided to employ its unemployed band members instead of paying them welfare. The entire process was done in various steps involving assessing the availability of work opportunities in the community, collecting resumes, providing necessary work training where needed, and also establishing a bus service for those band members. Earlier some band members were unemployed simply because they did not have transportation to get them to their jobs. To set up training and the bus service the community raised money on its own. The First Nations consider this a step towards independence and the assertion of independence.


Read the article in detail at: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/09/25/matt-gurney-how-a-first-nations-band-is-fixing-its-big-welfare-problem-with-a-small-solution/