Thread: Food stamp rolls plummet in states that restore work requirements

Food stamp rolls plummet in states that restore work requirements

Jul 04, 2017



After the food stamp rolls swelled for years under the Obama administration, fresh figures show a dramatic reduction in states that recently have moved to restore work requirements.

States were allowed to waive those rules for able-bodied adults thanks to the 2009 economic stimulus. As the rules loosened and the economy sputtered out of the recession, food stamp enrollment soared to record levels – peaking at nearly 48 million nationwide in 2013.

But while that number has dipped gradually in recent years, some states have moved aggressively to push recipients who can work back into the job market and, in due time, off the program.
Alabama began 2017 by requiring able-bodied adults without children in 13 counties to either find a job or participate in work training as a condition for continuing to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

According to AL.com, the number of those recipients declined from 5,538 to 831 between Jan. 1 and the beginning of May – an 85 percent drop.

Similar changes were implemented in select counties in Georgia and by the end of the first three months, the number of adults receiving benefits in three participating counties dropped 58 percent, according to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently reported that in 21 additional counties that restored the work requirement, there was a 62 percent drop in SNAP participants.

“Work requirements have been enormously successful at reducing the number of people on food stamps. And while they made sense in the early part of the recession when unemployment was higher, that is no longer the case,” said Robert Doar, a fellow in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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It's like Trump said, we've got to get smart, we've got to get tough, we've got to start doing the right things that put people back to work, you have to have the jobs, but when the jobs are there, there is no reason for food stamps or Medicaid or anything else for able-bodied people of working age, at least not from the government. If charities, churches and families want to help out, that's fine. But the sooner they get back to work, the better off they are, the better off their families are, and the better off we all are.

The country has been there and done that and it is nasty joke on people who obviously can't find work or they wouldn't need public assistance in the first place. The additional bureaucratic oversight just adds to the expense of public assistance and a good part of the price of public assistance is the necessary bureaucratic oversight.

The most important thing to insure in public assistance -- believe it or not -- is to make sure those who are already working inform the bureaucrats in public assistance that they have income. This is the real problem in public assistance, policing those who do not report all their income. Who are those least likely to report additional income? Immigrants, illegal or otherwise.

And of course there is the additional idiocy of funding child bearing while on public assistance. Nobody who is on public assistance should get additional benefits to support child bearing. If you cannot support yourself, then you shouldn't be raising a family either. Hey, people who are working and do not require public assistance make these decisions all the time. They decide not to have kids until they secure themselves economically.

"And of course there is the additional idiocy of funding child bearing while on public assistance. Nobody who is on public assistance should get additional benefits to support child bearing. If you cannot support yourself, then you shouldn't be raising a family either."

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Absolutely. And we need to get down and crude about this. I do not want to pay for other people to have sex and their children they cannot afford. Keep your pants zipped. Disgusting that our government FORCES taxpayers to pay for this.

You have a right to screw...you do not have right to force me to pay for it.

People are going to do it...so I am 100% for free vasectomies and tubal ligations and birth control. Make getting the appointment as easy as going to the Dentist. And send the message...go get it done because we are ending the breed and feed programs!

Disgusting to bring a child into the World, live in poverty off the BACKS of others and take off their plates! This is sick and needs to end.

Ending birthright citizenship is the only way to slow down the gravy train of taxpayer funded freebies flowing into the outstretched hands of illegals. Most pay not a dime for pregancy and birth, and as soon as the baby arrives , free medical, free food, free education , etc, are theirs for the taking. Throw in the additional child tax credit and it is evident why taxpayers are taxed ever more and more; to pay for the citizen children of illegal aliens. Any gains made by securing the border will have limited effect as long as Americans are forced to provide welfare for the offspring of illegals.