It is easy today to tell someone who is having trouble, “here look at this link it may help.” Links to supposed helpful charities are really just links to another person who will gives a link and most of them lead to one source, a state welfare office. While this information is valuable for people who may not know where to find all the resources available to them, is this the kind of help we should give to the immediately desperate?
The only true way to help the unemployed is to take a step back from the zoo of federal politics and begin looking in your own community. The American people have lost a sense of community and loyalty to the neighbors around us. People have become withdrawn and relatively unfriendly with the me-centric attitudes of today. The culture of America needs to change so that people look to their neighbors and care about their communities once more. What American’s need is a reinvestment into social capital.
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