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Friday, March 15, 2019

‘Self-Sufficiency, Not a Sinkhole’: JOBS Act Updates Work Requirements for Welfare Recipients

Republicans in the House and Senate are making another legislative push to enforce work requirements for able-bodied adults on welfare.

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday announced the Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services Act.

The JOBS Act comes as the Trump administration makes a renewed push for work requirements for welfare recipients in its fiscal year 2020 budget proposal.


The successful 1996 welfare reform law is now broken, Daines said, asserting that states that find loopholes to avoid imposing work requirements undermine the aim of that law.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why should they not work? They are scamming the system anyway, since they are to lazy to work. I have to work to get money. So why shouldn't they? I don't get free money

Anonymous said...

Everyone should contribute something.

Anonymous said...

Drug test for everyone on welfare

Anonymous said...

I was in ONE FISH TWO FISH yesterday you should have seen the EBT CARDS paying for STEAMED CRABS.