Posted on 07/20/2018 4:15:26 PM PDT by upchuck
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration may have declared it over, but a new War on Poverty is coming anyways. It will be fought largely over the "work requirement" -- should the government require welfare recipients either to get a job or to train for one? It's a philosophical as much as a practical question.
A work requirement addresses a dilemma of all welfare programs. If you make eligibility and benefits too generous, you destroy the incentive to work. People will just collect their welfare checks. But if the program is too stingy and strict, many genuinely needy people may lack support. A work requirement tries to disarm this dilemma by conditioning welfare benefits on having a job or training for one.
There's already a work requirement for TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). That's traditional welfare; it mainly assists single mothers and their children. Now the Trump administration proposes work requirements for two huge programs: Medicaid, health insurance for the poor; and food stamps, now known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
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“Also seeing them buying gum, Getting $20 cash back to buy their cigs.”
Are you implying they’re getting cash back from a SNAP purchase? Doesn’t happen, no change.
If someone cannot support the children you have, it is unfair to let them have MORE the rest of us have to support.
Can you explain, please?
Oh, you put it so well. This Catholic is just gobsmacked that such attitudes exist.
I’ve been saying this for 30 years now. Way back I was dating a sing mom who was on assistance. We split up but crossed paths and got back together for a bit. In the meantime she went out and git knocked up again and was single mom x2. I told her that state should put her on norplant (it was new at the time) as terms of her benefits. With my such attitude, you can guess we didn’t stay together long.
That’s how they keep them on the plantation.
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