Does promoting it seem at odds with addressing concerns such as education, health care, and job readiness?

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Indeed, Cincinnati Works is not working with groups in 20 other cities to emulate its job readiness program.

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It provides job readiness training, housing for sober living, and mental health and employment support services for what Silverman calls a "difficult-to-serve" population.

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If you are wondering about job readiness, a few people in our class have already gotten job offers, and others are in the process.

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"Employers are saying, 'Give us people with the right attitude and job readiness, and we'll take care of the rest, " says Eli Segal, president of the nonprofit Welfare to Work Partnership.

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In mid-August he embraced the proposals of the Hartz commission a body which he established last year which reckons unemployment could be halved within three years by a combination of policies which would put more pressure on the jobless to be more flexible in their readiness to take up job offers even if, in some cases, that meant moving around the country.

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"If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness, it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research, it won't consider whether we're cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day, " Obama said.

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