It looks like the Obama administration is finally doing something about the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border — they’re hiring workers, at salaries of up to $100,000, to find them homes.
The help-wanted signs are being hung out by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS, according to the government’s Web site, USAJobs.gov, is looking to hire at least six Field Program Specialists at salaries ranging from $69,497 to $101,866 a year.
“As a Field Program Specialist in the Office of Refugee Resettlement . . . you provide authoritative advice to Division of Children’s Services (DCS) contracted case coordinators and DCS care provider programs in the development and implementation of care and placement plans of unaccompanied children.”
With waits of up to 578 days before getting a hearing in front of an Immigration Court judge, the kids will be better off and more comfortable in a home than at one of the shelters, the administration must believe.
The jobs were listed on the site on June 10, just as the wave of unaccompanied children was coming across the Texas border.
And it doesn’t look like HHS is expecting the problem to end soon, since applications for those jobs don’t have to be in until Sept. 12.
The jobs are located in: San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas; Washington, D.C.; Newark; New York; Chicago; and Phoenix.
It’s unclear if there is only one position per city. But it is clear that you’ll be on the road 50 percent of the time if you get the position.
What do the specialists do? “Coordinates and oversee the safe reunification of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) with family or other adult sponsors in the U.S.,” according to the job ad.
In the past few days, the White House has said it would send most of the children back to their home country. Certainly, any child from Mexico is sent packing immediately.
The Obama administration recently asked for $3.7 billion to deal with the kids; Congress said no. It’s unclear where the money came from for the HHS jobs.
Want one of these jobs? It’s listed as HHS-ACF-DE-14-1135177. You can put me down as a reference.
Want one of the kids? I guess you could call the White House for that.
I need your help.
I’m still impatiently waiting for the Commerce Department to turn over e-mails from about six workers at the Census Bureau.
Most of them are/were employed in the Philadelphia Census office. One was in Chicago. A couple of them abruptly retired once I started poking around.
Commerce promised me 1,600 pages of e-mail documents on four of the workers. Commerce has already cashed The Post’s check for these documents.
I was told there were at least another 2,000 pages of e-mails between two Census supervisors, but Commerce said I couldn’t have them. The Post’s lawyers are fighting that one.
Of course, it does take time to destroy hard drives and delete e-mails that might shed light on the shenanigans at Census. But I want these guys to speed it up.
So, here’s what I need: please call Dr. Jennifer Goode of the Commerce Department at (301) 763-7685. She’s supposed to be rounding up the material for me. And you might want to remind her that Pres. Obama once said something about endorsing government transparency.
The New York Times has invented the wheel — and it spins.
Columnist Floyd Norris figured out the other day that something must be wrong with the government’s economic statistics.
Take a second so we can give thanks that the Times does such fine reporting, even if it has taken half a decade.
Norris explains that during the first quarter of 2014, the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) suffered the worst decline since 2009, yet “employers hired more people than in any quarter over the last six years.”
“It is hard to imagine how both of those statements could be true, but they are what government statistics indicate,” he added.
Wow! I wish I could investigate like that.
(Note to Times: Both the GDP and the job figures are wrong. Take another few years to figure that out.)
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said last week that he’d like the Fed’s mandate to include “increasing financial and economic stability.”
Ah, so the Fed finally wants permission to do what it’s been doing all along — rig the financial markets.
That’s OK with me. With Janet Yellen opening her big mouth, it won’t be long before there’s another crisis.
What did Yellen say? The new Fed chairman told The New Yorker that she was going to keep interest rates low even when the economy is back on track. That helped the market a lot Monday.
“I come from an intellectual tradition where public policy is important . . . it’s our social obligation to do this,” Yellen yapped. Geez, aren’t we lucky to have such a brain looking out for us?
So, it’s Yellen’s social obligation to make sure the stock market creates another bubble (at the expense of savers) and it’s Fischer’s desire to keep the world safe from those bubbles.