{"id":97850,"date":"2019-10-25T23:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T06:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/more-than-100-homeless-people-now-have-jobs-through-austin-nonprofit"},"modified":"2019-10-25T23:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T06:02:46","slug":"more-than-100-homeless-people-now-have-jobs-through-austin-nonprofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/more-than-100-homeless-people-now-have-jobs-through-austin-nonprofit","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 homeless people now have jobs through Austin nonprofit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-than-100-homeless-people-now-have-jobs-through-austin-nonprofit3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The employees get paid $15 an hour cleaning the green space in Austin.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/homeless\">homeless<\/a> often face barriers when trying to find employment. This week, after reaching the one-year anniversary of their new program, a nonprofit said they are making a difference for those trying to get on their feet and find a job.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2018, <a href=\"http:\/\/toofound.org\/\">The Other Ones Foundation<\/a> (Too Found) created its <a href=\"http:\/\/toofound.org\/programs\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Workforce First program<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/local\/i-call-it-a-miracle-job-city-of-austin-pilot-program-employs-homeless-people-cleans-up-parks\/269-617878937\">provide the homeless with jobs<\/a> cleaning the green space in Austin and reduce panhandling.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, the organization has provided more than 130 jobs and paid out more than $100,000 in earned income to the homeless or at-risk, according to Chris Baker, the executive director of the nonprofit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The employees get paid $15 an hour cleaning the green space in Austin. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The homeless often face barriers when trying to find employment. This week, after reaching the one-year anniversary of their new program, a nonprofit said they are making a difference for those trying to get on their feet and find [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}