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Report: Job training rule for food stamps would trim rolls by half
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^
| 5/20/12
| Jason Stein
Posted on 05/20/2013 11:09:15 AM PDT by Jean S
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:09:15 AM PDT
by
Jean S
To: Jean S
What’s the cost of the “job training” vs. the cost of their continuing to receive food stamps and do nothing?
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:10:54 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(They will hate it, but I don't care.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:11:25 AM PDT
by
Jean S
To: Jean S
but the TOTUS wants his base to look amazing
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:12:18 AM PDT
by
hecht
(america 9/11, Israel 24/7)
To: Jean S
Mandatory drug testing would trim it even more.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:13:07 AM PDT
by
gop4lyf
(Are we no longer in that awkward time? Or is it still too early?)
To: Jean S
“If any would not work, neither should he eat.” 2 Thessalonians 3:10.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:13:24 AM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: Jean S
And the administration would sue claiming discrimination, a catchall accusation used when there is no reason to believe the law has been broken.
To: Jean S
Maybe a few welfare queens could be trained to hold umbrellas so our Marines could go about securing the USA.
Oh, probably not, as they would complain that the job was too demeaning.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:17:06 AM PDT
by
Wurlitzer
(Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
To: Jean S
How about the ones who already have full-time jobs?
To: Wurlitzer
they would complain that the a job was too demeaning
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:18:49 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Jean S
Gov Tommy Thompson did this once before and the welfare rolls dropped drastically in Wisconsin late 80s early 90s.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:19:35 AM PDT
by
hondact200
(Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
To: Jean S
What happened? When I worked at the Iowa Workforce Center from 1988 to 2000, both food stamp and AFDC (”welfare”) recipients had to go through a job search skills workshop if called upon to do so. I taught many of those classes. Some exceptions were made (total disability, pregnant and nursing mothers, etc.) but it was mostly mandatory.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:20:01 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
To: gop4lyf
This has been tried and failed. Low drug detection rates and the testing cost more than savings from dropping the (relatively few) detected druggies. More sophisticated and costly tests aren’t the answer and mj is certainly not going to disqualify in states where it is legal.
It is possible that certain subgroups of SNAP recipients have heightened rates of drug use but it wasn’t the case across the Florida sample.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:31:02 AM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
To: Tax-chick
Well, unfortunately they don’t just ‘do nothing’.
They reproduce themselves... because it is the ONLY thing remaining for them to do that they are capable of doing and which cannot be done by someone else.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:36:25 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: Jean S
“job training” That’s a dog whistle racist phrase /sarc
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:37:41 AM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: Jean S
Job *training*?
No! No more damn “job training” boondoggles that are just a featherbed wealth transfer to goofy, ineffective “job training” companies and entities.
Mandating “job training” at “state-approved” “job trainers” just adds corporate welfare on top of individual welfare.
You want food stamps? Actively seek and find a JOB.
Any job.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:38:46 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
To: hondact200
“Gov Tommy Thompson did this once before and the welfare rolls dropped drastically in Wisconsin late 80s early 90s.”
I knew someone did that before and I was trying to think who that was - it was Thompson,thanks for knowing the name.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:38:57 AM PDT
by
Marcella
(Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
To: Jean S
What if its someone who is already working 40 hours a weeks but needs a little help?
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:56:53 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: Marcella; hondact200
Rudy did it in NYC with "workfare."
OVERNIGHT, more than a third (half?) of welfare recipients in NYC evaporated when it went into effect.
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posted on
05/20/2013 11:59:18 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
“Rudy did it in NYC with “workfare.”
OVERNIGHT, more than a third (half?) of welfare recipients in NYC evaporated when it went into effect.”
I thought Rudy was a fine mayor - I didn’t live in New York but what he did was commendable - cut down crime and of course was a champion on 9-11 and after.
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posted on
05/20/2013 12:12:10 PM PDT
by
Marcella
(Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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