Indiana Gov. Mike Pence: We’re ‘ennobling’ poor people by cutting off food stamps
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence: We’re ‘ennobling’ poor people by cutting off food stamps
David Edwards
18 Nov 2014 at 10:55 ET
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) explained on Tuesday that a new policy that could cut off food stamps for thousands of people in his state would be “ennobling” for poor people.
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration announced last month that beginning in 2015, it would no longer request a waiver to the federal work requirement for certain people who use the SNAP program. Up to 65,000 single Hoosiers could lose food stamp benefits unless they are working 20 hours a week or attending job training.
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“I’m someone that believes there’s nothing more ennobling to a person than a job,” Pence insisted. “And to make sure that able-bodied adults without dependants at home know that here in the state of Indiana, we want to partner with them in their success.”
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Advocates of the poor have argued that the state should solve the problem by creating programs to help jobless people before stripping their food stamp benefits.
“Let’s figure out what the goals are for these able-bodied adults without dependents, and then let’s build a program that meets those goals,” Jessica Fraser of Indiana Institute for Working Families told the Indy Star. “That seems to make a little more sense to me.”
A Hunger in America 2014 study released this week found that one out of every six people in Indiana turned to one of 11 food banks run by Feeding Indiana’s Hungry.
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