Excellent!
If they are able, they should be required to do this.
Well now...somebody could use this data against any socialist agenda....couldn’t they?
LePage/Trump 2016!
Shelter bed nights in Portland Maine were also down in 2015, so these ABAWDs are not suddenly going homeless.
Such reforms are Impossible in places like NY, IL and CA - politicians depend on this class of voters to stay in power.
Able-bodied Adults Without Dependents
The major constitutinal problem with this vote-winning federal welfare program is that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to reasonably establish such a program.
In other words, Maine and other states could arguably afford to run their own ABAWD programs if the corrupt federal government was not stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
This work requirement would have interfered with their off-the-books jobs. They’re too busy working to work!
As WFB once wrote, when you subsidize something you get more of it, like illegitimacy and cheese.
Bump for later.
Add mandatory drug testing and the case load will drop even further.