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You're right that people and businesses are self-serving. In The Netherlands we see that refugees don't want to work for lower wages because they will have to c

You're right that people and businesses are self-serving. In The Netherlands we see that refugees don't want to work for lower wages because they will have to contribute to the shelter as soon as they start making money. This morning an article was published stating that someone who would work on a farm for a month would have only €169 to spend after paying the shelter for housing them. So there's definitely work to be done. Regarding businesses, they do get subsidized when they hire a refugee or someone who has been unemployed over a longer period of time. In addition to that, businesses hiring more than 30% from these groups can mention that they're an MVO business (Social Responsible Business). These companies have extra training and/or extra support. Having that said: it's like you said "tax breaks, public goodwill, advertising. I will see how I can get the message more clear on the website. Thanks for your response!

johnwheeler 10y ago
> In addition to that, businesses hiring more than 30% from these groups can mention that they're an MVO business (Social Responsible Business). These companies have extra training and/or extra support. Ok that's fantastic -- there you go. I don't think there's something equivalent in the U.S. which is why I was ignorant. Quick question - can you share your stack and what host you use (as much as reasonable for you)? Reason I'm asking is because I'm putting together a project that's aim is to let you deploy to live on day one (sort of like a PaaS like Heroku or App Engine allows you to do, but the difference is you can use your own VM like Digital Ocean). It's aimed at people doing MVPs, and I'm trying to get a sense of what people like you/me are doing. https://github.com/johnwheeler/startup-starter https://github.com/johnwheeler/startup-starter
- arjnulrich 10y ago
  Yeah sure, all I have done so far is: 1. Google Form for posting a job 2. refugeejobs.wordpress.com at WordPress 3. Fujobee.com and .eu at GoDaddy 4. fujobee@gmail.com at Gmail Regarding Gmail: I'm using fujobee+.....@gmail.com to test (and possibly also automate) a few things.

johnwheeler 10y ago

> In addition to that, businesses hiring more than 30% from these groups can mention that they're an MVO business (Social Responsible Business). These companies have extra training and/or extra support. Ok that's fantastic -- there you go. I don't think there's something equivalent in the U.S. which is why I was ignorant. Quick question - can you share your stack and what host you use (as much as reasonable for you)? Reason I'm asking is because I'm putting together a project that's aim is to let you deploy to live on day one (sort of like a PaaS like Heroku or App Engine allows you to do, but the difference is you can use your own VM like Digital Ocean). It's aimed at people doing MVPs, and I'm trying to get a sense of what people like you/me are doing. https://github.com/johnwheeler/startup-starter https://github.com/johnwheeler/startup-starter

arjnulrich 10y ago
Yeah sure, all I have done so far is: 1. Google Form for posting a job 2. refugeejobs.wordpress.com at WordPress 3. Fujobee.com and .eu at GoDaddy 4. fujobee@gmail.com at Gmail Regarding Gmail: I'm using fujobee+.....@gmail.com to test (and possibly also automate) a few things.