Work for food stamps -- or jerking people around?
This shameless jerking people around is appalling. This article focuses on the cruelty that Walker thinks is a good idea for Wisconsin. Non compliance means that you get locked out of re-applying for aid for THREE YEARS!
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Still, as part of a push by the administration to compel work by beneficiaries of government programs for the poor, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue dispatched a letter this month to every governor, prodding them to impose statewide work requirements on able-bodied food stamp recipients without dependent children — potentially affecting nearly 4 million people in the three dozen states that do not do so now.
With the state’s unemployment rate having dropped to a historic low of 2.8 percent in May, Walker and other proponents have said this is an ideal time to help people into jobs so they become self-sufficient.
But the next time unemployment rises, “we are going to see hunger increase,” said Maureen Fitzgerald, advocacy director of the Milwaukee-based Hunger Task Force. “The time limit cuts people off food aid after three months, so if there is no job to be had, people will have no help with food for three years.” Even under best-case circumstances, jobs can be scarce in poor neighborhoods, pay too little, or be beyond the reach of people who cannot afford a car.
Under rules that began in April 2015, able-bodied Wisconsinites without dependent children who do not meet the work requirements for three months are locked out of FoodShare for three years before they can reapply.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an-experiment-requiring-work-for-food-stamps-is-a-trump-administration-model/ar-BBQh8rB
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