It's called making people work, train, or volunteer while on food stamps:
Thousands Cured Of Poverty After Georgia Introduces Work-For-Food-Stamp Requirement – MILO NEWS
Thousands of people have been miraculously cured of poverty in Georgia following the state’s implementation of a requirement that all those receiving stamps must either be working, training for a job, or volunteering for a non-profit or charity.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Georgia has been rolling out work requirements for food stamp recipients for over a year.”
The outlet states that the latest rollout saw the requirements reach 21 counties, affecting roughly 12,000 able-bodied people without children.
Those people were given until April 1 to fulfil the aforementioned requirement. But when that date rolled around, The Journal-Constitution, citing state figures, reports that more than half of the food stamp recipients were dropped from the program.
“Essentially, the number of recipients spiraled down from 11,779 to 4,528, or a drop of 62 percent,” the outlet states.
According to The Journal-Constitution Georgian officials are looking at expanding the food stamp requirements to all 159 counties in the state by 2019.
“The greater good is people being employed, being productive, and contributing to the state,” said Bobby Cagle, head of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services, according to the outlet...
I've long said that any long-term people on welfare should be required to work in the fields or volunteer 20 hours per week for a government or non-profit agency unless they have a serious and medically-documented condition that precludes them from doing so. We should roll this program out nationwide.
Republicans have just about ruined Georgia's agriculture.
Crops Rot While Trump-Led Immigration Backlash Idles Farm Work
The death of meaningful U.S. immigration reform, done in by Washington partisanship and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s incendiary comments on foreigners, is leaving crops withering in the field and the farm lobby with nowhere to turn as a labor shortage intensifies.
If Trump Builds the Wall, What Will Happen to our Food System? - Modern Farmer
According to the Farm Bureau report, “closing the border” (i.e. building a wall) would greatly exacerbate existing farm labor shortages found in many parts of the country, resulting in crops left to rot in the fields and a vast reduction in agricultural productivity—which could put some farmers out of business.
“Many migrants who begin their careers as farm laborers move onto other sectors of the economy [with] less demanding positions after several years,” the authors noted. “This progression leads to farmers often being the first to bare the negative economic impacts of decreased border crossings and migrant labor shortages.”
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As always, Republicans take a country that if finally starting to the recover from the last GOP administration and drag it back down. They can't help themselves. That's just who they are.
You link to
Bloomberg for economic analysis?!? The annual "crops-rotting-in-the-fields" bogeyman is pure bullshit. It's a scare tactic that relies on the economic absurdity that there exist such things as "labor shortages". Claiming there is a labor shortage in America is the same thing as saying there aren't enough Americans. It is self-evidently false and you shouldn't buy it.
Almost Six Million Unfilled Job Openings In America - Question Is Why?
LOL, 6 mil unfilled job openings? Doesn't mean we have a labor shortage. We have a job overage. We need 6 million robots. Actually, I'm kidding. There's a very simple reason there are "six million unfilled job openings" in the US. Let's see if you can guess what it is:
Mr. Tightwadi owns a burger and kebab joint called Cheap Eats in Skinflint, Michigan. His dishwasher gets deported so he puts a sign in the window that says "DISHWASHER NEEDED. $2 / hour". All day he sits in his office with a stack of blank application forms in front of him ready to interview. But no one comes in for the job. Every fifteen minutes or so, he sticks his head into the kitchen and notes with alarm the growing stack of dirty dishes in the sink. As the day wears on and no one applies for the job, he begins to wonder whether he might have to close the restaurant! Finally, his nerves are shot so he goes into the restroom and locks himself in a stall and begins wailing: why, oh why, will no one wash my dirty dishes?
In the very next stall, as luck would have it, there is a writer for The Economist taking a shit. He has been to a famous college and gotten an expensive and prestigious degree and does economic analysis for a living. He is an expert, in other words, and decides to help poor Mr Tightwadi. I couldn't help but overhear, said the expert, and he farted loudly, but I saw your sign advertising for a dishwasher out front. I think I know what your problem is, he said, groaning with the strain of passing an enormous turd.
Really? said Mr Tighwadi hopefully. Did I use the wrong font on my sign?
I'm not sure, grunted the economist, fonts aren't my area of expertise. But what you have to understand is--and Mr Tightwadi heard a big splash in the next stall--washing dishes is a job Americans don't want to do. And he said it with such confidence Mr Tightwadi was sure he was right.
He was filled with despair. So how will my dishes get clean? he cried.
Well, the writer for the famous and influential magazine asked, can you think of anyone who wants to do dishes?
No! wailed the restaurateur.
Not even in your home country? he asked sly with a long mellifluous fart.
No! They hate washing dishes, too!
Even in America? For two whole dollars per hour?
Well... said Mr. Tightwadi. They might want to wash dishes then. At least their children could have a chance at an education...
You see? the economist exclaimed triumphantly.
But they aren't in America.
Who's the richest person in America? asked the well-educated writer.
Bill Gates, replied Mr. Tightwadi.
And if he's the richest businessman, he must be the best businessman, right?
Yes.
And how does he fill job openings when there aren't enough qualified Americans?
I don't know?
He calls his Congressman and reports a severe shortage of tech workers. Then he makes a large contribution to the Congressman's reelection campaign to prove how severe the shortage is.
Wow, said Mr Tightwadi. That's brilliant. A good education really does pay off. Thank you.
No problem, said the economist. And the best part is, the yokels around here whose wages you will be undercutting are on the hook for the cost of educating your dishwasher's children!
Dayummm, said Mr. Tightwadi respectfully.
Yep, all it takes to succeed in America, um, hey did you know you are out of toilet paper over here?
Oh, said Mr. Tightwadi, my janitor is so lazy. Local... hey... do you think--
Yes, said the writer for The Economist.
