They will get off food-stamps when we bring the jobs back and the labor market looks safe to return to. They will return when the rewards in the labor market are higher than the subsistence level of food-stamps and the market looks stable enough that they don’t think they will get trapped.
By trapped, I mean that they are afraid if they take a job and lose their food-stamps and then get fired or laid off, they will be worse off than if they had just stayed on food stamps.
Some may need intervention to get off. But that’s a wasted effort until there are sufficient jobs.
Amen!
At long last some common sense; not everyone on stamps is a leech enjoying a free ride.