Food stamp work rules don't increase employment, researchers say

[C_Clayton_Jones]

‘Proponents of work requirements argue that they incentivize people who are "work-ready" to seek and keep jobs, reducing dependence on government assistance and upholding the "dignity of work." Rhonda Rogombé serves as health and safety net policy analyst for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. She and her colleagues have studied the effects of SNAP work rules and found that requiring recipients to work does not lower an area's unemployment rate.’

Food stamp work rules don't increase employment, researchers say

Work requirements will encourage people who are able to work to seek and maintain jobs, proponents say. But researchers haven't found that they lower the unemployment rate.

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That Republicans are wrong again as usual comes as no surprise.

For conservatives work requirements were never about reducing unemployment, they are punitive measures intended to punish low income Americans and express the right’s unwarranted distain for public assistance programs – programs that are both necessary and proper in a free market system where poverty is an inevitable byproduct, poverty that is not the fault of the poor.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Most people want to be self sufficient

 

[Oddball]

Freeloaders gonna freeload.

 

[22lcidw]

‘Proponents of work requirements argue that they incentivize people who are "work-ready" to seek and keep jobs, reducing dependence on government assistance and upholding the "dignity of work." Rhonda Rogombé serves as health and safety net policy analyst for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. She and her colleagues have studied the effects of SNAP work rules and found that requiring recipients to work does not lower an area's unemployment rate.’

Food stamp work rules don't increase employment, researchers say

Work requirements will encourage people who are able to work to seek and maintain jobs, proponents say. But researchers haven't found that they lower the unemployment rate.

www.cbsnews.com

That Republicans are wrong again as usual comes as no surprise.

For conservatives work requirements were never about reducing unemployment, they are punitive measures intended to punish low income Americans and express the right’s unwarranted distain for public assistance programs – programs that are both necessary and proper in a free market system where poverty is an inevitable byproduct, poverty that is not the fault of the poor.

Whatever the answer is it does not exist now for poverty is not improving.

 

[Lesh]

Whatever the answer is it does not exist now for poverty is not improving.

Try that in English

 

[hadit]

‘Proponents of work requirements argue that they incentivize people who are "work-ready" to seek and keep jobs, reducing dependence on government assistance and upholding the "dignity of work." Rhonda Rogombé serves as health and safety net policy analyst for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. She and her colleagues have studied the effects of SNAP work rules and found that requiring recipients to work does not lower an area's unemployment rate.’

Food stamp work rules don't increase employment, researchers say

Work requirements will encourage people who are able to work to seek and maintain jobs, proponents say. But researchers haven't found that they lower the unemployment rate.

www.cbsnews.com

That Republicans are wrong again as usual comes as no surprise.

For conservatives work requirements were never about reducing unemployment, they are punitive measures intended to punish low income Americans and express the right’s unwarranted distain for public assistance programs – programs that are both necessary and proper in a free market system where poverty is an inevitable byproduct, poverty that is not the fault of the poor.

Yet another victim of foil helmet marketing hype pretends he knows how conservatives think.

 

[1srelluc]

Most people want to be self sufficient

Well it is WV....They will only do the minimum required to keep their checks rolling in.