Dems love to scream about the doomsday and end of the world scenarios they associate with changes to welfare. They label Republicans as heartless for daring to suggest working is a viable source of income instead of welfare.
Maine must be making liberal’s come unhinged as the welfare reform, put in place by Republican Gov. Paul LePage has been an enormous success, with welfare numbers dropping by 56, 506 people and unemployment also benefiting as well.
How one asks? What did they do? Read on page 2.
I like the govenor in Maine he has style. Even his own wife is working as a waitress to help pay for her own summer vacation. Now thats class. They are setting a perfect example for both people on welfare and leaders in Washington. Kudos to both the govenor and his wife. Now thats what I call leadership.
MOOCHIE WILL NEVER WORK A DAY IN HER LIFE,AND NEITHER WILL THOSE TWO GIRLS!
Now if we could do that for the rest of the country that would be great.
Sounds good
I’m not on them, but think they want slaves.
Maine’s Republican governor on Wednesday launched a push to make more “able-bodied” people work for their food stamps.
“People who are in need deserve a hand up, but we should not be giving able-bodied individuals a handout,’’ said Gov. Paul R. LePage.
LePage will reportedly stop seeking a federal waiver — issued in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession — allowing some food stamp recipients to bypass requirements that they work or volunteer, according to local news channel WCSH.
About 12,000 of the state’s residents receiving $15 million annually in food stamps are considered to be able-bodied by Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), which administers the aid. That means that they are between the ages of 18 and 49, have no dependents and are not pregnant or disabled.
In the next three months, those who are deemed able-bodied must work or volunteer with a community organization for 20 hours a week or lose their aid.
One in seven Americans receive food stamps. Some have called movements to make people work for food stamps – and a recent congressional bid to cut the program by $800 million – a war on America’s poor. But for LePage, it’s about uplifting a developing post-recession underclass.
“We must continue to do all that we can to eliminate generational poverty and get people back to work,” LePage said. “We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.”
Over the past six months, Maine’s DHHS has worked with the state’s Labor Department to help families receiving food stamps and other assistance get on a “pathway to employment,” the DHHS said in a news release. The effort connects people with employment centers and performs vocational assessments.
“We are committed to helping people use these resources, as well as providing training, to get people back to work as quickly as possible,” said DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew.
Maine’s unemployment rate was 5.5 percent in June, down from 6.7 a year before, according to the state’s Labor Department.
— BEST GOVERNOR IN AMERICA
I think they did this in Kentucky too, not 100% sure on that but I know it has been done before with the same results.
THE “WELFARE STATES” HAVE GOT TO STOP ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH !
Rite way to go