While Trump keeps the Left focused on the border...

[FakeNews]

A five-year farm bill that includes stricter work requirements for some food stamp recipients narrowly passed the House today.

The bill, approved on a 213-211 vote, includes cutting $23 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, shifting a portion of the revenue into additional workforce training. Under the bill's provisions, all able-bodied adult SNAP recipients between ages 18 and 59 who aren't pregnant or don't have children ages 6 or younger would be required to work a minimum of 20 hours a week or be in job training. The work requirement would increase to 25 hours by 2026.

SNAP recipients who fail to meet the 20-hour-per-week work requirement could lose benefits after one month. Currently, most*food stamp recipients*ages 18-49 who aren't disabled or raising minor children are required to work a minimum of 20 hours a week.

https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/new_food_stamp_work_requiremen.html

 

[bestone4ever]

https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/new_food_stamp_work_requiremen.html

If US farmers quit using federal funds to hire illegals, the problem wouldn't exist.

 

[phrodeau]

It's nice to know that the nation's workers are now welfare recipients. So much for that "if you're on welfare you're a lazy bum" idea.

 

[Gamine67]

If US farmers quit using federal funds to hire illegals, the problem wouldn't exist.

The proper word is “Undocumented”, there is no such thing as an illegal person.

The subject bill is never going to pass the Senate so it’s a moot point.

Meanwhile the southwest border isn’t a moot point. It’s a valid human rights issue and humiliation for the trumpanzie.

 

[Hypoxia]

It's nice to know that the nation's workers are now welfare recipients. So much for that "if you're on welfare you're a lazy bum" idea.

Here's a very interesting if arrogant article about the upper 9.9% of US population. The amount of national wealth held by the bottom 90% and the top 0.1% have fluctuated over recent decades; the ultra-rich get ultra-richer as the poor get poorer. The percentage held by the 9.9%, the professionals -- "doctors and lawyers and business executives" -- exceeds both top and bottom combined and has stayed relatively constant.

Another factor, the IGE, InterEenerational Earnings Elasticity index, "which measures how much of a child’s deviation from average income can be accounted for by the parents’ income. An IGE of zero means that there’s no relationship at all between parents’ income and that of their offspring. An IGE of one says that the destiny of a child is to end up right where she came into the world." IGE in USA was 0.3. Now it's 0.5. Economic mobility is much more limited than in most European social democracies. In USA, you're likely to match your parents' level. High, low, or scraping by, that's where you'll stay.

Consequence: the bottom 90% is going to stay down there. "We’re leaving the 90 percent and their offspring far behind in a cloud of debts and bad life choices that they somehow can’t stop themselves from making." They're going to stay in lousy neighborhoods with lousy jobs making barely enough, maybe with don't-call-it-welfare gov't assistance. That's the future.