Guess we don't need employment assistance in Louisiana

Just tell them all to levitate their trains to Disneyland by their bootstraps, or something.

The state's social services department is cutting $17 million from its programs, including eliminating an employment assistance program, because Congress didn't renew a block grant Louisiana has received for 15 years, the department secretary announced Friday. To close the gap, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services will scrap a 10-parish pilot program to help people find jobs, and will shrink benefits and support services for former welfare recipients who have found work. The department also will cut the monthly assistance given to grandparents and other relatives taking care of children who are not their own, through the Kinship Care program, from $280 per month to $222.