[Screaming Eagle Red Leg]

Horrible that people are required to work! Horrible! What is this country coming to!

[Xenalyte]

Obviously, no one opposes work," says Kate Walz, a lawyer at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law in Chicago. "But the concern is that we'll have these model, mixed-income developments, with a lot of resources and access to public transportation and new schools, while all families ineligible will be pushed out to the same old public-housing developments, so nothing will have changed."

No one's ineligible. You sign up, you're in. You just gotta do something they tell you up-front you have to do.

[Dubya]

"Obviously, no one opposes work," says Kate Walz, a lawyer at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law in Chicago.

LOL

[Dubya]

Not everything is set in stone, he notes. Heads of household, for instance, will have a 12-month grace period in which they can look for work or attend job training.

This is really being tough on them.

[Old Professer]

If someone were to ever invent a kitchen utensil that would get the last ounce of peanut butter out of the jar, hunger in America would be eradicated.

[CzarNicky]

"Among other things, heads of household will have to work 30 hours a week."

Chicago is obviously run by fascist Republicans. </DU>

[Kurt_D]

"mixed-income housing" is a failure. It doesn't work. It's complete nonsense that only works in the twisted minds of delusional left-wing Utopists. I say: eliminate public housing a free the market. Why should WE subsidize a roof for people we don't know and ESPECIALLY don't care about? I work hard to pay my rent. I work hard to pay my food. Why should my money subsidize people that don't work and have decided too many children?

[sarasmom]

Looks like they are finally trying to do what works.
It never made sence to have "low income housing projects" where everyone in a large neighborhood area is "underpriviledged" and on government assistance.
How can anyone learn anything except living in poverty and how to milk more from assistance programs in that environment?

[FITZ]

Among other things, heads of household will have to work 30 hours a week. All other adults over 18 must either work or attend self-sufficiency, education, or basic-skills programs for 30 hours a week.

That's pretty much a law of nature --- too bad the government got so involved in the first place and taught people dependence --- now the government has to tell them to work. Just end the handouts and they'll figure it out.