Maine Required Childless Adults to Work to Get Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened

[fredtoast]

(02-11-2016, 08:09 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Haha, ok ok.
Democrats in his own state tried to stop this.

When?

[fredtoast]

(02-12-2016, 12:50 AM)Vlad Wrote: Read the last paragraph....

Requiring work for able-bodied welfare recipients was a key element of President Ronald Reagan’s welfare philosophy. It was the foundation of the successful welfare reform in the 1990s. But the idea of work in welfare has fallen by the wayside. It is time to reanimate the principle.

Ya wanna guess who stopped it then? Forcing people to work was "oppressive"...haha, there's that word again.

Historic Opposition to Workfare

President Obama has created a firestorm by overturning the work requirements in the welfare reform law, but this is just the latest step in a long history of liberal opposition to work requirements in welfare. For example, welfare reform under President Richard Nixon was blocked by left-wing opposition to work requirements. Throughout the 1980s, liberals in Congress blocked President Ronald Reagan’s efforts to require AFDC recipients to work.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/obamas-end-run-on-welfare-reform-part-one-understanding-workfare

These are different programs.

Requiring single parents to work to receive AFDC was counter productive.  A single parent would often not make enough money to pay for the daycare required for her children.

[Rotobeast]

(02-12-2016, 11:33 AM)fredtoast Wrote: These are different programs.

Requiring single parents to work to receive AFDC was counter productive.  A single parent would often not make enough money to pay for the daycare required for her children.

And where they dropped the ball was not training some of the welfare recipients to be professional daycare providers,  so they might watch the others children as they worked.