Most Medicaid recipients live in cities and do not have farms nearby.
I was thinking the same thing, but ...
Immigrants had housing nearby. And buses still work.
Sometimes you have to move to where the work is.
Urban Medicaid recipients do live near hotels and restaurants that need workers. Of course, they have to be paid an attractive wage and have good working conditions that many employers find too expensive and too hard to provide.
Fine. For the urbanites let them clean up graffiti and litter. Sweep sidewalks, empty the trash cans. Lots of city work that can be done.
Ironically, inner cities used to have farms.
“Most Medicaid recipients live in cities and do not have farms nearby.”
Yeah, the old saw about ‘illegals doing the work that Americans won’t do’ has more to do with the issue of getting the citizens on welfare to the work site than a general unwillingness to do the work. I know, I know ... free money make one lazy but no money is the cure for that.
Also the only changes in the BBB to work requirements were:
1. Work required from parents with dependents under 14 (used to be 18)
2. Raising exemption from work requirements from age 54 to 64.
The vast majority of cancelled exemptions are from group #2.
Do they really expect a bunch of AARP-eligible folks to be picking strawberries?