Work requirements for TANF and SNAP are counterproductive cruelty
...dreamed up by the phony right wing republicans as red meat for their anti-government voters.
Even in the red states which have high unemployment and poverty levels, this will just push more older people further into poverty.
It doesn't create opportunity for recipients - it just kicks them when they're already down by compelling them into this false and deceitful sham that pretends to transition them into work for an absolutely inadequate pittance, many cases all the food they have, that will now have an arbitrary end point without any assurance or even care anything has changed in the financial condition of the households.
I'm sitting here realizing this is supposed to happen because House republicans held the nation's credit and debt hostage. That relatively tiny percentage of the federal budget that goes into helping people from becoming so impoverished that they literally starve has an infinitesimal impact on the federal budget.
Once again, it's the poor and vulnerable among us who are made to sacrifice for a political 'deal.' The rest is also not about deficit reduction: IRS cuts, and a ridiculous Joe Manchin boondoggle he slipped into the debt limit deal meant to accelerate Mountain Valley Pipeline, a multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline that’s been repeatedly stalled because of environmental concerns.
Are we really letting this happen?
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and youth aging out of foster care
While the budget agreement would raise the age for existing work requirements on able-bodied adults without children from 50 to 54, Biden was able to secure waivers for veterans and the homeless.
The deal carves out *new* exemptions for adults who would no longer be subject to ABAWD work requirements: veterans, youth aging out of foster care, individuals who are homeless.
