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Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Food Stamp Reform In SC: About Time

BABY STEPS TOWARD WELFARE REFORM …

This website has repeatedly called on South Carolina leaders to adopt modest food stamp reforms that have proven successful at reducing dependency in other states. In fact we reiterated our call less than three weeks ago.

South Carolina finally listened …

Thanks to pressure applied by state lawmakers – notably S.C. Rep. Chris Corley of Aiken (who filed this bill back in December) – the administration of governor Nikki Haley is at long last imposing a work requirement on able-bodied food stamp recipients between the ages of 18 and 50.

It’s about time …

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gov Hogan where is nd welfare reforms?

lmclain said...

They aren't "reforming" welfare, they are trying to control an ever-growing (and out-of-control) budget line. Welfare payments are DESTROYING state and federal budgets.
If those politicians actually HAD the money, they'd still be throwing it at all the voters they could. They look at their budgets now and say "Holy crap!! we need to be more CONSERVATIVE in our spending!!"
Lol.
It is what they've been TOLD by us for years.
Keep cheering.

Anonymous said...

You can thank Obama for taking away work for welfare.