Food Stamp Worker

This article on Food stamp workers, is talking about how the Texas government had to hire more employees to help them go through interviews with the applicants and also view the applications. They are already way behind the deadline to approve people and many families are still waiting to hear back if they got approved. It also talks about how they are hiring so many people and these workers who worked for the government had to go through training real fast. They also say many of these workers are clueless and I am not surprised. You cant ask workers to come in and try to work real fast and interview families to see if they meet the requirements to get food stamps. These employees are working to many hours and are not getting anything done because they are so lost and were put into work without much training. Many employees also cant handle it. I think it was better to train these employees first before they put them out in the offices and made them work. These families are still waiting for responses and many of them need food stamps. The government should have a better plan towards this rather than putting out employees who dont know what they are doing and are not getting any work accomplished.
"We've moved in the right direction," Gov. Rick Perry told reporters
I don't think we are anywhere close to the right direction because 42,000 families are still waiting on responses from the government and these families don't have money as it is!
State Sen. Tommy Williams a republican from The Woodlands said hiring employees for the long term is a good idea but it wont fix the problem right now. I agree we need to work faster, I understand there are not many hours in a week for these employees and also that they already work overtime to process these applications but we need to get smarter and more informed employees to help these families out.
"I'm not sure that getting 250 or 500 people in there who don't know what they're doing is really going to solve this problem,"said Williams
I agree with this statement like i said before it will help long term but not now another thing Williams said was "The only way out is to have a task force of people we know can do the job, and efficiently, and ask them to help us get out of this hole we're in."
This will help us get the work done faster with people who know what they are doing and have the experience.
Sheila Badzioch, a caseworker in Houston said, "There is no way that people who are in training can understand policy — much less do an interview (with an applicant) — in two weeks," she also said, "You're overwhelming the people who are coming in. They're just lost."
Many people agree that these new workers don't know what they are doing. I think we just need better and more informed employees