Fighting Poverty: Attacks on President Trump's push for work requirements to get welfare benefits fall into two categories: Either the work rules are pointless, or they are inhumane.
So it's no wonder many of them bitterly oppose work requirements of the sort President Trump has been advocating for Medicaid and other assistance programs.
In his latest step in the work-for-aid direction, Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to add or strengthen work requirements for "Any program that provides means-tested assistance or other assistance that provides benefits to people, households or families that have low incomes."
These are the exact same arguments made against welfare reform in the 1990s, which changed federal welfare from an open-ended entitlement to a more limited program that imposed modest work requirements on those getting benefits.
Marion Wright Edelman, then head of the Children's Defense Fund, called it a "Moment of shame." Illinois Sen. Paul Simon declared that "This isn't welfare reform, it's welfare denial." Even now, many Democrats want to get rid of it.
"In the past decade, welfare rolls have dropped substantially, from 12.2 million in 1996 to 4.5 million today. At the same time, caseloads declined by 45%. Sixty percent of mothers who left welfare found work, far surpassing predictions of experts."
"While bipartisan welfare reform enacted in 1996 was a step toward eliminating the economic stagnation and social harm that can result from long-term government dependence, the welfare system still traps many recipients, especially children, in poverty and is in need of further reform and modernization in order to increase self-sufficiency, well-being, and economic mobility."
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/work-requirements-welfare-trump-executive-order/
So it's no wonder many of them bitterly oppose work requirements of the sort President Trump has been advocating for Medicaid and other assistance programs.
In his latest step in the work-for-aid direction, Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to add or strengthen work requirements for "Any program that provides means-tested assistance or other assistance that provides benefits to people, households or families that have low incomes."
These are the exact same arguments made against welfare reform in the 1990s, which changed federal welfare from an open-ended entitlement to a more limited program that imposed modest work requirements on those getting benefits.
Marion Wright Edelman, then head of the Children's Defense Fund, called it a "Moment of shame." Illinois Sen. Paul Simon declared that "This isn't welfare reform, it's welfare denial." Even now, many Democrats want to get rid of it.
"In the past decade, welfare rolls have dropped substantially, from 12.2 million in 1996 to 4.5 million today. At the same time, caseloads declined by 45%. Sixty percent of mothers who left welfare found work, far surpassing predictions of experts."
"While bipartisan welfare reform enacted in 1996 was a step toward eliminating the economic stagnation and social harm that can result from long-term government dependence, the welfare system still traps many recipients, especially children, in poverty and is in need of further reform and modernization in order to increase self-sufficiency, well-being, and economic mobility."
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/work-requirements-welfare-trump-executive-order/
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