Trump moves to restore work requirement for welfare

[james_1957]

Welfare reform!

Need money to make a mortgage payment or pay rent? Get a job!

Need money to make a lease or car payment? Get a job!

Need money to eat or feed the family? Get a job!

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to reimpose work requirements for Americans on welfare, revoking an Obama-era policy that had urged states to apply for waivers exempting the poor from having to show they were either getting job training or looking for work.

Requiring work was a key part of the 1996 welfare reform law enacted by a GOP-led Congress and signed by then-President Bill Clinton, and Mr. Trump’s move restores the law as written.

“The waiver option offered by the Obama administration is being replaced today by an expectation that work should always be encouraged as a condition for receiving welfare,” said Steven Wagner, the Health and Human Services Department’s acting assistant secretary for children and families.

The 2012 Obama policy didn’t outright gut the welfare law. Instead, it pushed states to consider applying for waivers that would let them still pay benefits to people even if they weren’t actively seeking work, job training or meeting other criteria.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/30/trump-moves-restore-work-requirement-welfare/

 

[Liar]

Welfare reform!

Need money to make a mortgage payment or pay rent? Get a job!

Need money to make a lease or car payment? Get a job!

Need money to eat or feed the family? Get a job!

That's not what work requirement means. Didn't you read the text you quoted?

 

[james_1957]

That's not what work requirement means. Didn't you read the text you quoted?

From the article...

“Chairman Brady believes that work requirements are essential to providing Americans with real paths out of poverty and up the economic ladder,” said Shane McDonald, spokesperson for House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady. “Today’s action by the Trump administration ties in seamlessly to the work that he and the committee are doing to deliver policy solutions that truly improve the lives of American families nationwide.”

"Paths out of poverty" means from welfare to work.

 

[Freudian_Slit]

From the article...



"Paths out of poverty" means from welfare to work.

How does welfare-to-work == work requirement, connie_1957?

 

[Liar]

From the article...



"Paths out of poverty" means from welfare to work.

That did not adress my point.

Also, it's nothing but politispeech.

 

[Liar]

Work requirement = "having to show they were either getting job training or looking for work" in a Government approved fashion.

The vapid "get a job!" catchphrase requires belief in the magical job fairy.

 

[Hypoxia]

For corporate welfare recipients, does "get a job" include lobbying?

 

[richard_daily]

For corporate welfare recipients, does "get a job" include lobbying?

Yes, and you should be able to get those jobs even before leaving public office.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Work requirement = "having to show they were either getting job training or looking for work" in a Government approved fashion.

The vapid "get a job!" catchphrase requires belief in the magical job fairy.

Well maybe if the government wasn't doing it's best to strangle the job fairy (entrepreneurship) to death at every possible turn....it wouldn't be a catchphrase and the whole situation over all would be less of a problem.