Thousands dropped from food stamps due to work requirements

TTQ64 said:
Racist white men are a danger to our society.

We need to stop funding states who do this to the poor.

Why do we keep allowing these people to do this while they themselves are living off the government dole.

As a resident of CA, my taxes go to support these racist as states.

CUT THEIR FUNDING and let them sink.
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What poor people? Trump has created more jobs than folks to fill em up. How about the alleged poor go to work and feed themselves like taxpayers do!!!!!!!
 
MASON said:
Nothing more fun for Conservatives,then starving the poor!
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If you're starving in Trump's economy, you're either mentally ill, or you're a bottom feeder, feeding on the fruits of taxpayer's labors.
 
They tried that in California years ago . All they had to do was to go on job interviews to stay on food stamps .

Employers caught on quickly . They ended that program .
 
Bill said:
Thousands dropped from food stamps due to work requirements​



Thousands dropped from food stamps due to work requirements

ATLANTA-NEWS
By Craig Schneider - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Georgia EBT card
Posted: 3:12 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Thousands of Georgians have lost their food stamps after the state gave them an ultimatum: Get a job or lose your benefits.
Is that good news or bad news? Depends who you talk to. Placing work requirements on food stamps has proven controversial across the country, with opinions often divided along political lines.
Georgia has been rolling out work requirements for food stamp recipients for over a year. The latest round affected some 12,000 people in 21 counties, several in metro Atlanta, who are considered able-bodied without children.
When the April 1 deadline came around for them to find work, more than half — 7,251 — were dropped from the program, according to state figures released this week. Essentially, the number of recipients spiraled down from 11,779 to 4,528, or a drop of 62 percent.
Views on the work mandate vary widely, and intensely. People on the political right see the requirement as a nudge to those who languish on public benefits. But those on the left believe many people who the state deems able-bodied really cannot hold a job due to physical or mental limitations. And they worry these people will suffer without the assistance.
State officials say they plan to expand the work requirements to all 159 counties by 2019, with another 60 coming on board next year.
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Bobby Cagle, director of the state Division of Family and Children Services, has said, “The greater good is people being employed, being productive and contributing to the state.”
The two political sides differ even in their view of the people in this category, who the state identifies as able-bodied adults without dependents or ABAWDs.
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DFCS Director Bobby Cagle said, “The greater good is people being employed, being productive and contributing to the state.” (photo: Kent ... Read More

Brandon Hanick of the progressive activist group Better Georgia believes this population is filled with people with mental health impairments, limited education and borderline physical handicaps. They often lack the wherewithal to prove to a state bureaucracy their inability to meet the work requirements, he said.
“It’s cruel,” Hanick said of the work requirements. “We’re talking about one of the most basic needs — the need for food.”
But state Rep. Greg Morris, a Republican from Vidalia, said the precipitous drop in recipients shows the mandate is working. He believes many of these food stamp recipients have become complacent, if not lazy, about finding a job.
“This is about protecting taxpayer dollars from abuse, and taking people off the cycle of dependency,” Morris said. The big drop in numbers, he added, “shows how tax dollars are abused when it comes to entitlements.”
Food stamps come from federal dollars, but the program here is managed by DFCS. Some 1.6 million Georgians receive food stamps.
The number of food stamp recipients deemed able-bodied and without children in Georgia has dropped from 111,000 to 89,500 in a year’s time. That is an uncommon reduction of 21,500 people or 19 percent. Officials say they have no firm reason for the sharp decrease, though they suspect a statewide review of this population may have played a role.
The state began implementing the work requirements in 2016 with Cobb, Gwinnett and Hall counties. The state gave recipients there three months to find a job or training program or lose their benefits. A year later, the number of able-bodied, childless adults in those counties diminished 75 percent from 6,102 to 1,490, according to DFCS figures. The state selects counties with relatively low unemployment rates for the work requirements.
But state officials acknowledge the system initially had a problem in classifying who is able-bodied. They discovered that hundreds of people who the state had classified as able-bodied in Cobb, Gwinnett and Hall were actually unable to work. Some lost their food stamps when the work requirements began. Staff have since received additional training.
Georgia’s expansion of the work requirements comes as conservatives nationally push for more welfare-to-work initiatives. All but a handful of states employ work requirements. The mandate is a federal policy, implemented during the welfare reform of the nineties but put on hold during the Great Recession.
President Donald Trump’s new budget plan proposed to cut $192 billion from food stamps over a decade.
What happens to the people dropped from food stamps?
The agency does not track individuals once they leave the program. Officials noted that some may have been reclassified as handicapped. They would still be receiving food stamps but not be required to work. Others may have obtained jobs.
Here again, views on what happens to these people often splits along political affiliations.
Benita Dodd, vice president of the fiscally conservative Georgia Public Policy Foundation, said she believes the work mandate is pushing many into jobs.
“It does show that if you give people an incentive to help themselves, they can become productive citizens,” she said.
But Melissa Johnson, a senior policy analyst with the left-leaning Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, has more dire concerns. Food stamps, often the first government assistance sought by people in hard times, are “such a meager benefit,” she said, adding that the average benefit is $129 a month in Georgia.
“I believe these time limits are harmful, and they are likely to lead to more hunger and hardship,” Johnson said.
DFCS officials say they have repeatedly reached out to these recipients, offering them help with job searches and training. The agency has a $505,706 contract with Goodwill of North Georgia to help people get training and connections to employers.
“The agency has many services to offer (them), but many have chosen not to respond to multiple notices,” said DFCS spokeswoman Mary Beth Lukich.
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The United States is not a socialist nation. Neither is any State that still honors its own constitution. If Georgia wants to require work for their food stamp program, they are within their perfect right to do so.
 
Bill said:
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What are you suggesting there are no democrats in the demography that you just propagated? :thinking: If it were only true. In fact as Mark Twain declared, "Figures don't lie....but liars sure as hell figure." Take for instance the supposed RED STATE that leads in food stamp distribution....WV. NPR (2014 article) declared..."democrat voter registration dropped to historic low......its now only 50% democrat....to be exact. 49.9% of all registered voters in WV are still democrats. More inconvenient facts to debunk your false premise. It was in fact DEMOCRATS that placed Trump into office (the impenetrable blue wall)...not republicans...debunking the big lie that its republicans that are at fault for everything from the new flu this fake constitutional crisis. ;) Why all the hate for your fellow demwits?

www.nrp.org/sections/itsallpolitic/...er-of-democrats-in-w-va-drops-to-historic-low
 
Bill said:
Thousands dropped from food stamps due to work requirements​



Thousands dropped from food stamps due to work requirements

ATLANTA-NEWS
By Craig Schneider - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

76​


newsEngin.18801522_Peach-copy.jpg
Georgia EBT card
Posted: 3:12 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Thousands of Georgians have lost their food stamps after the state gave them an ultimatum: Get a job or lose your benefits.
Is that good news or bad news? Depends who you talk to. Placing work requirements on food stamps has proven controversial across the country, with opinions often divided along political lines.
Georgia has been rolling out work requirements for food stamp recipients for over a year. The latest round affected some 12,000 people in 21 counties, several in metro Atlanta, who are considered able-bodied without children.
When the April 1 deadline came around for them to find work, more than half — 7,251 — were dropped from the program, according to state figures released this week. Essentially, the number of recipients spiraled down from 11,779 to 4,528, or a drop of 62 percent.
Views on the work mandate vary widely, and intensely. People on the political right see the requirement as a nudge to those who languish on public benefits. But those on the left believe many people who the state deems able-bodied really cannot hold a job due to physical or mental limitations. And they worry these people will suffer without the assistance.
State officials say they plan to expand the work requirements to all 159 counties by 2019, with another 60 coming on board next year.
Related

The key spending cuts and increases in Trump's budget

Trump's food stamp cuts face hard sell in Congress

Bobby Cagle, director of the state Division of Family and Children Services, has said, “The greater good is people being employed, being productive and contributing to the state.”
The two political sides differ even in their view of the people in this category, who the state identifies as able-bodied adults without dependents or ABAWDs.
+
KENT D. JOHNSON / AJC​

DFCS Director Bobby Cagle said, “The greater good is people being employed, being productive and contributing to the state.” (photo: Kent ... Read More

Brandon Hanick of the progressive activist group Better Georgia believes this population is filled with people with mental health impairments, limited education and borderline physical handicaps. They often lack the wherewithal to prove to a state bureaucracy their inability to meet the work requirements, he said.
“It’s cruel,” Hanick said of the work requirements. “We’re talking about one of the most basic needs — the need for food.”
But state Rep. Greg Morris, a Republican from Vidalia, said the precipitous drop in recipients shows the mandate is working. He believes many of these food stamp recipients have become complacent, if not lazy, about finding a job.
“This is about protecting taxpayer dollars from abuse, and taking people off the cycle of dependency,” Morris said. The big drop in numbers, he added, “shows how tax dollars are abused when it comes to entitlements.”
Food stamps come from federal dollars, but the program here is managed by DFCS. Some 1.6 million Georgians receive food stamps.
The number of food stamp recipients deemed able-bodied and without children in Georgia has dropped from 111,000 to 89,500 in a year’s time. That is an uncommon reduction of 21,500 people or 19 percent. Officials say they have no firm reason for the sharp decrease, though they suspect a statewide review of this population may have played a role.
The state began implementing the work requirements in 2016 with Cobb, Gwinnett and Hall counties. The state gave recipients there three months to find a job or training program or lose their benefits. A year later, the number of able-bodied, childless adults in those counties diminished 75 percent from 6,102 to 1,490, according to DFCS figures. The state selects counties with relatively low unemployment rates for the work requirements.
But state officials acknowledge the system initially had a problem in classifying who is able-bodied. They discovered that hundreds of people who the state had classified as able-bodied in Cobb, Gwinnett and Hall were actually unable to work. Some lost their food stamps when the work requirements began. Staff have since received additional training.
Georgia’s expansion of the work requirements comes as conservatives nationally push for more welfare-to-work initiatives. All but a handful of states employ work requirements. The mandate is a federal policy, implemented during the welfare reform of the nineties but put on hold during the Great Recession.
President Donald Trump’s new budget plan proposed to cut $192 billion from food stamps over a decade.
What happens to the people dropped from food stamps?
The agency does not track individuals once they leave the program. Officials noted that some may have been reclassified as handicapped. They would still be receiving food stamps but not be required to work. Others may have obtained jobs.
Here again, views on what happens to these people often splits along political affiliations.
Benita Dodd, vice president of the fiscally conservative Georgia Public Policy Foundation, said she believes the work mandate is pushing many into jobs.
“It does show that if you give people an incentive to help themselves, they can become productive citizens,” she said.
But Melissa Johnson, a senior policy analyst with the left-leaning Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, has more dire concerns. Food stamps, often the first government assistance sought by people in hard times, are “such a meager benefit,” she said, adding that the average benefit is $129 a month in Georgia.
“I believe these time limits are harmful, and they are likely to lead to more hunger and hardship,” Johnson said.
DFCS officials say they have repeatedly reached out to these recipients, offering them help with job searches and training. The agency has a $505,706 contract with Goodwill of North Georgia to help people get training and connections to employers.
“The agency has many services to offer (them), but many have chosen not to respond to multiple notices,” said DFCS spokeswoman Mary Beth Lukich.
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And...………………………..what??
 
I Love America said:
I know you think you are proving a point here. Care to tell us what it is? Are these pictures supposed to make me agree with you?

Why are you opposed to work?


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I think he was trying to show that those states that trump won by the widest margins are also the states that consume the most welfare. As a matter of fact they are also the states with the poorest education rates. Basically just showing that it is the Republican that is generally fucking stupid, lazy and on welfare.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
got something to indicate all the demmycrats in red state urban areas aren't on foodstamps?......
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Urban areas are invariably democrat, how come the blue state urban areas don't consume nearly what the red ones do? How come the states that use the most are almost invariably the states trump won by the widest margins?

The poorest county in the country voted for trump by the widest margin, it's 99% white and over 60% of those living in it are on welfare.
 
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