Posted on 12/23/2018 12:35:17 PM PST by Eddie01
The Trump administration is setting out to do what this year’s farm bill didn’t: tighten work requirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday is proposing a rule that would restrict the ability of states to exempt work-eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment to receive food stamps.
The move comes just weeks after lawmakers passed a $400 billion farm bill that reauthorized agriculture and conservation programs while leaving the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which serves roughly 40 million Americans, virtually untouched.
Passage of the farm bill followed months of tense negotiations over House efforts to significantly tighten work requirements and the Senate’s refusal to accept the provisions.
Currently, able-bodied adults ages 18-49 without children are required to work 20 hours a week to maintain their SNAP benefits. The House bill would have raised the age of recipients subject to work requirements from 49 to 59 and required parents with children older than 6 to work or participate in job training. The House measure also sought to limit circumstances under which families that qualify for other poverty programs can automatically be eligible for SNAP.
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Clinton did it, too. But, he did it because he had to, not because he wanted to.
Good. Gives them something else to do besides make more children they can’t afford or commit crimes. Idleness is the devil’s workshop, as they say.
Did the media scream and yell when Clinton did it??
One thing few people talk about is that there is no dignity in handouts.
People may bellyache about getting out the door and perform a useful task, but in the end they will gain a level of self-respect they otherwise would not have had.
Maybe Sarah Sanders can point that out to cry-baby Acosta during their melt down press conference.
Did the media scream and yell when Clinton did it??
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As I recall he was against it but the bill passed so overwhelmingly that he had to sign it as a veto would be overridden.
400 billion farm bill? Am i the only one who wonder why taxpayers can’t get a wall?
I wondered why it is called a farm bill since it is all about welfare. Then I remembered that farmers get tons of welfare. They will vote for anyone who promises them more subsidies.
Winning! More please.
JoMa
The farm bill is a great grab bag of provisions. The bulk of the money is for nutritional assistance. The major spending for farmers is subsidized crop insurance, but this is a minor part of the overall bill. The biggest chunk of USDA employees work for the Forest Service. Then there are food inspection, export promotion, and agricultural-related research, both applied and in the basic sciences. Then there is Rural Development, which covers low-income housing, business development and utilities in places that HUD, Dept. of Commerce and HHS couldn’t find on a map. (You can drive across the country and count on finding electricity and indoor plumbing along your route because of RD; we wouldn’t have a national electric grid without the rural electrics, which cover more than three quarters of the nation’s land area.) My favorite USDA agency is APHIS, which is concerned with disease control and invasive species. I’ve argued for years that if we were serious about controlling our borders, we’d put APHIS in charge. APHIS kills things, ruthlessly and very efficiently.
most people on SNAP have children. so this ruling will have zero influence on 90 percent of the receptiants.
most people on SNAP have children. so this ruling will have zero influence on 90 percent of the receptiants.
Exactly. Work requirements for welfare are mostly political theater because they always exempt those with dependent children, which is the vast majority of recipients as you noted. It’s amazing how a biological function like having a child entitles you to exalted status in this country. It’s no secret that welfare leeches keep having kids to increase their freebies, the only way we’re going to get this massive welfare state abuse under control is to stop paying them more for having kids. Having a child shouldn’t put you on easy street, make them work for the food stamps children or not. We’re already paying for their child care already under the guise that they have to have it in order to work, so make them work.
And it’s a joke saying that those of child bearing and making age (who presently don’t have children) who are able bodied will have to work part time to pay for their freebies. This just encourages those who don’t presently have children NOW to join the group of scum bouncing out government dependents every nine months, adding to over population and keeping the vicious cycle roaring along. Until we cut off giving ANYONE who has children they can’t feed freebies, this will NEVER END.
Sorry, Gary Crow, that I didn’t read your response first. My thoughts are in line with yours’ 100%. I’m old enough to remember when it was regarded as amoral when there were unwed births. Now it appears it’s a badge of honor to be called an “unwed mother”.
You can lay the blame for that on the mainstreaming of defective black culture.
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