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    "ocrText": "16\nfor all cities and towns in New England.⁴² These data can be obtained from state employment\nsecurity agencies, from BLS regional offices, and from the home page BLS maintains for its Local\nArea Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, which may be found at\nhttp://stats.bls.gov:80/lauhome.htm In addition, useful information about areas with insufficient\njobs can be obtained from DOL's Employment and Training Administration and from state and\nlocal job availability studies.\nUSDA announced in August that it would issue guidance to states on seeking waivers by\nlate September. This guidance was not issued in fact until December 3. This delayed many states'\nplans for requesting waivers. Nonetheless, at this writing, some 17 states have submitted waiver\nrequests. 43 Eight states' requests have been approved at last report, including several based on the\n\"insufficient jobs\" criteria.\nB.\nThe Timing of Waivers\nAlthough no one will become ineligible for food stamps under the new time limits until\nMarch, many food stamp recipients in areas with insufficient jobs are likely to be hurt if waivers\ndo not cover December, January, and February. These recipients would exhaust their three\nmonths of eligibility for the current 36-month period. Should their area cease to qualify for a\nwaiver at some later point in the 36-month period, or should they move to an area with a stronger\njob market and need food stamps while they look for work, these individuals will be ineligible if\ntheir receipt of food stamps this winter is not covered by a waiver.\nTherefore, having waivers go into effect as quickly as possible is quite important.\nAlthough many states felt they could not start meaningful work on their waiver requests until\nUSDA issued its guidance, or may wish to refine or expand their waiver proposals in light of that\nguidance, it is nonetheless important that waiver requests be submitted as soon as possible.\nMoreover, states should consider asking that any waivers be granted retroactively to the date on\nwhich the \"clock\" began to run in that state (i.e., around November 22 in most states). In making\nsuch a request, states can reasonably point out that the state delayed work on its waiver proposal\nin reliance on USDA's assurances that guidance on the availability of waivers would be\nforthcoming within a month of enactment and that the state's preparations were repeatedly\npostponed as USDA's issuance of the guidance was also delayed.\n⁴²BLS also collects this data monthly for townships of 25,000 or more in Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and\nPennsylvania. Moreover, data on areas of a county outside of its larger cities and towns can be derived by\nsubtracting the cities' figures from those for the county.\n⁴³These states include Alabama, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,\nPennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington State, and West\nVirginia."
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