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Board set up to aid refugees
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John | 11:30 a.m. April 29, 2008
Few people realize the drain this is on the tax payers of Utah ! Few realize
the magnitude unless you work in the healthcare profession as I do.
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Private sector | 12:16 p.m. April 29, 2008
Is this the role of government or the private sector?
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Renee | 10:46 a.m. May 5, 2008
This is a wonderful idea!! I do think that six months is an overly aggressive
goal. I am a neighbor to a family from Burundi, Africa. They arrived in America
September 2007.These are wonderful people with very limited knowledge of the
civilized world. In the beginning, they had no concept of what was to be kept in
the fridge or what a washer or dryer are for. The parents and the 18 yr old now
work, but after the housing and utilities are paid, there is less than $75.00 a
month left over. Without state assisted day care and some food stamp assistance
I don't know what they would. They still need to learn English and figure
out how they will pay back the $9,500 used to get them here within the three
year term of the loan. True self-sufficiency in six month seems difficult to
achieve. You just can't cut them off from help because the clock alarm goes
off. The other option is to step up training refugees receive. I hope this
program will be able to do that. Each family need so much help.
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