Posted on 03/29/2016 6:41:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
States are moving to once again require able-bodied adults to put in work hours in exchange for food stamps, after the requirements largely were suspended by the Obama administration.
The slow-moving reversal follows the administration pulling back on Clinton-era changes that required recipients to work for government welfare benefits. Signing the reform bill in 1996 alongside then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, then-President Bill Clinton said the goal was to make welfare “a second chance, not a way of life.”
But during the last recession, President Obama allowed states to suspend a requirement that able-bodied adults without children work at least 20 hours per week or participate in a training program to receive benefits for more than three months.
He allowed recipients to stay on food stamps indefinitely, arguing the three-month maximum was unfair with unemployment at 10 percent.
"Food stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis, Wall Street did," said Obama at this past January’s State of the Union address.
Unemployment today is half of what it was in 2009, yet last year more than 40 states did not require welfare recipients to work.
Kansas was one of the first states to reverse that in 2013.
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About damned time; it NEVER should have been removed !
Lot of potholes need fillin’.
Especially in NYC and up here in Ct. !
There is a “reverse litter” campaign asking people to pledge to pick up ten items of trash on Tuesdays.
I want to know why they are going to businesses with employees instead of asking the 15-20% of adults who are unemployed / disabled.
And here comes the ACLU and other human rights groups saying it’s demeaning that they have to work for their benefits.
Good grief, three dayz a week, five to six hours a day picking up trash along highways, cleaning/maintaining public parks, data entry in an office environment. There are thousands of positions that can be filled to help support America.
Requiring work for food stamps? They might as well have burned three crosses on MLK’s grave!
The problem with this idea is that even the disabled are being compelled to work, too. When a person is in the process of procuring a disability status, it can take some time to acquire all that’s needed. If you have no money, you can’t work, and therefore aren’t covered by medicaid, going to a doctor to get the disabled document can be a bit of a problem.
I happen to know somebody who is having to deal with this and it’s pretty hard on her as she’s a very hard worker...which is what caused her disability in the first place. She’s been bouncing from house to house with no real place to stay, living out of a suitcase and unable to purchase even her own tampons!
She has zero luxuries, no phone, no home, no job and is used to living very well...used to having her own money and independence.
While i agree in principle that people should work for their living, the true burden is on those who really are down for the count. It’s one more hoop to jump through in an already impossible situation.
I feel bad for her.
Problem is unions will scream because they want the jobs. I also see aclu suing for minimum wage
That lady definitely is one who does deserve all the help she can get
Excelllent
I wonder about emergency food stamps. Last week at the community college in my area, someone from the government was handing out $500 worth on a card to anyone wanting them saying if you were in the flood you could have them. Even if you weren’t, you could get them. So many people showed up the National Guard was there for crowd control.
There are many other ways food stamp money is getting handed out.
I feel awful for people like her. I have no problem helping people who are truly in need. Just burns me while I drive home from a 12 hour day and there are 10 guys playing hoops
Would love to see a bus load of them picking up trash along the highways and byways here in the Upstate of SC. I like this area but am disappointed with the level of littering that goes on. Just picking up my neighborhood is tiresome enough, and impossible to get beyond the neighborhood. Littering pick up would be great jobs for some of these able-bodied citizens to give back to their community.
Now there just needs to be jobs.
1. Get rid of all illegals
2. No more legal immigrants until American citizens have jobs.
3. Cut stupid rules/regulations/red tape especially EPA and globull warming crap.
4. Bring back manufacturing to the US>
Some are so disabled they can’t work, but those able bodied who can should. Even some very impaired can do something even if just offer support to others.
As an RN I once had a homecare patient who was paralyzed from the neck down post auto accident. She had an aid assist her with using the phone between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning to check on “ her list” of other shut-in to make sure they were ok. She repeated calls in the evening. This was her self appointed “job” to “earn” her benefits.
Agreed. All common sense reforms really
Raycis!
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