Do you think people should be forced to sign up for the Maine Job Bank to get unemployment benefits?

11 Comments

  • Jed - 9 years ago

    Can the Maine Job Bank promise them a job? Most people who need welfare benefits want to work - they don't want a free hand out. What if instead of signing up for a program that probably won't help them we instead just ask them to put in a fair day's work in exchange for that benefit? Send them into the schools to help teachers - what student wouldn't benefit from some one-on-one assistance? Or how about the old days of the CCC when we put people to work fixing stuff and building things? There is no shortage of work that needs done we just need to pay people to do it and if that means using tax dollars I'd rather do that then just give out a "benefit." Maybe some people really can't work because of a disability but for those who can let's give them something to do that they can feel good about.

  • mainer - 9 years ago

    Wait most of these have dish TV pretty soon they can watch MAINE FRONTIER LIVING OFF THE LAND ONLYHAVE A GOOD EVENING

  • Beth Estes - 9 years ago

    I understand signing up for it and i say yes but i work a full time job and our hours have been cut back temporaily so I am not looking for a job so why should I have to sign up for it to recieve partial benefits

  • Liz Huggins - 9 years ago

    As long as they are physically and mentally able to work and they shouldn't have to accept work that will not equal unemployment benefits. If they can't make a living wage, they can't take care of their families.

  • Brad Wambolt - 9 years ago

    I agree with Dennis

  • MAINER - 9 years ago

    I'm looking out of my window and I see snow ,I don't SEE those SHOVELS on their shoulders. but they don't mess the mail boxes for that check or the food coops.THE churches need to be shovel out, so get off those cell phone and computers and some one might see you and hire you to shovel off a roof.you can have your job back next Monday after Friday snow storm with three or four daysof job experiences.THANK- YOU FOR TRYING.

  • Dennis - 9 years ago

    For the most part, yes. However, there should be exceptions. For instance, those who work seasonal. Who is going to hire a person in the winter, when employment is hard to find at best, when they know the person is going back to their regular job in the spring? There need to be rules that fit the situation. Not all people should be judged the same. It all depends on why and for how long they are unemployed.

  • mainer - 9 years ago

    the answer is yes, but the people should have to see a person in person ,not a computer and if they show up TUESDAY at a state job on a snow day they are hired with a shovel paid by us . they is lots of seniors that can use their help.or give them a box of worm and permit to go MACDONALD to start a worm farm compost using the same shovel ,FISHING IS COMING SOON!! PS AND GO FISHING, OH NO GOV. PAUL LEpage will take you food stamps away he always have something up his sleeve

  • mainer - 9 years ago

    the answer is yes, but the people should have to see a person in person ,not a computer and if they show up TUESDAY at a state job on a snow day they are hired with a shovel paid by us . they is lots of seniors that can use their help.or give the a box of worm and permit to go MCDONALD to start a worm farm compost using the same shovel ,FISHING IS COMING SOON!! PS AND GO FISHING, OH NO GOV. PAUL LEpage will take you food stamps away he always have something up his sleeve

  • Linda Umel - 9 years ago

    job bank , Let's face it , If a person is over 35 or 40 they don't want you. I think if the unemployment center and oh how I know they don't like the center called that, but that's what it is. . Instead of all the meetings and movies on how, show me where the jobs are and when to apply. Bottom line if a person is over 40 years old ,file 13 is where the application goes. Unemployment center needs to revamp the whole system first.

  • Ellie M. Steward - 9 years ago

    Most people who are laid off, have a recall date. So why should they have to sign up for the Maine Job Bank just to receive money that is rightfully theirs? Also, why would they sign up for a job, knowing that they are going back to work for the same company and take a job away from another person who has no recall date!

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