Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia are scrambling to address a Trump administration policy change that will keep nearly 700,000 of their poorest residents from accessing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced last month that in an effort "to restore the dignity of work," the Trump administration would limit states from waiving work requirements in areas of high unemployment for people between the ages of 18 and 49 who are childless and not disabled.
The change will affect hundreds of thousands of people and create a tremendous amount of work for small state agencies over a short timeline, NBC News reports.
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11 comments:
Mislead much? 700,000 of the poorest??? should'nt that be 700,000 scammers able bodied lazy deadbeats.
Love it
NBC: "...nearly 700,000 of their poorest residents.."
No, nearly 700,000 people who have been scamming the system for years. The truly poor who really need the help will continue to get it.
Food stamps are for the needy, not the lazy !
This is long past due, good for our country, and good for the people who were able bodied but chose not to work.
I agree that the able bodied people should work for a paycheck, but where are they going to find all these jobs? 700,000 is a lot of jobs.
"700,000 is a lot of jobs"
Not in the Trump economy. Jobs are going begging.There are tons of openings.
These are the people who were being chased down the street by the Obama administration, trying to get them to sign up for food stamps (which they did), even though they weren't really eligible. Standards were very lax.
I'm guessing a lot of them also have those free Obamaphones that they aren't eligible for either.
The best social program is a JOB!
5:50 The jobs are there. The lazy don't want them.
Whites don't qualify !!!
Just go to Food lion on nanticoke road. Ghetto queens with overflowing carts with multiple future welfare recipients in tow. I literally watched a Cadillac Escalade parked in the fire lane get loaded up with taxpayer funded groceries. This makes me sick.
The abusers should be punished, but Not the Honest folks !!!
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