U.K. Churches Warn Government on Forced Employment

EDINBURGH, Scotland (RNS/ENInews) British churches have criticized a government plan to remove unemployment benefits from people who refuse to accept jobs offered by labor officers. “There is a serious danger that people living in poverty will be stigmatized by...

What Jesus Could Have Said About Unemployment

I grant that Jesus didn’t include aid to the unemployed in his litany about the sheep on the right hand and goats on the left, as recorded in Matthew 25. But, as a graduate school professor of mine once said about things Jesus reportedly didn’t say:...

Can We Help Jobless People Up Without Hand-Outs?

The poor you always have with you, Jesus said. But the mark of a civilized society is that it will set a limit to that poverty. France’s Henri IV said that he would have no peasant in his kingdom too poor to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. A modest aim...