Why join in on Agentoaf's transparent brand of stupid? He's a moron. If you feel like stooping to his level, help yourself. It's no skin off my back.He has the burning cross within. It's obvious to anyone with a shred of human decency.
Can you say why it is good?http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...in-states-that-restore-work-requirements.html
Relative information. Seems to be a good thing to me.
Pretty obvious. People are going back to work, and off assistance. As the article says, it is not meant to be a long term thing. Hopefully you don't think that is a bad think. Able bodied people with no kids should be working, or bettering themselves otherwise.
As you've replied to several of my posts, you wonder why I said you were trolling? Geez.
If you think there are many jobs to be had in rural Alabama you're woefully uninformed.
Training programs? You're talking about people so poor that they don't have reliable transportation & couldn't afford the gas if they did.
It's all feel good smoke & mirrors for guys like you. It just makes a lot of poor people in Alabama even poorer.
A key component of the 1996 welfare reform bill, the work requirement applies to able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) between the ages of 18 to 49.
However, as part of his 2009 economic stimulus, then-President Barack Obama allowed states to waive SNAP work requirements, which resulted in the number of ABAWDs on food stamps more than doubling from 1.9 million in 2008 to 3.9 million in 2010, according to a 2012 Congressional Research Service study.
The number continued to rise but has since slipped to roughly 4.2 million. According to the USDA, most states still offer full or partial waivers.
Welfare was never intended to be a one-way handout, but a program based on the idea of reciprocity,” said Robert Rector, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “Those who receive benefits from the government should be required to work or participate in work-training as a condition
Really?If you think there are many jobs to be had in rural Alabama you're woefully uninformed.
You should probably do some research first BEFORE making ridiculous statements that have no bearing on reality, Jhhnn. Even if you try to claim some that your were talking about "rural" employment, nobody else was, so that's a red herring argument.Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted May unemployment rate is 4.9%, down from April’s rate of 5.4%, and significantly lower than May 2016’s rate of 5.8%. May’s rate represents 107,364 unemployed persons, compared to 119,113 in April and 125,153 in May 2016. May’s rate represents 2,089,217 employed persons, compared to 2,088,764 in April and 2,038,912 in May 2016.
The last time Alabama’s unemployment rate was at or below 4.9% was March 2008 when it measured 4.8%. The last time Current Population Survey (CPS) employment measured at or above 2,089,217 was March 2007, when it measured 2,090,126.
Wage and salary employment, totaling 2,014,600, increased in May by 13,100. Monthly gains were seen in the leisure and hospitality sector (+6,100), the construction sector (+3,100), and the manufacturing sector (+1,500), among others.
The only other times wage and salary employment surpassed 2,014,600 were in December 2007 (2,026,700), November 2007 (2,022,000), and June 2007 (2,018,400).
Over the year, wage and salary employment increased by 33,000, with gains in the leisure and hospitality sector (+7,500), the manufacturing sector (+6,300), and the education and health services sector (+6,000), among others.
All metropolitan areas had rate decreases both over the month and over the year. Only one county (Sumter) experienced a rate increase over the month, and all counties saw their rates drop over the year.
There are jobs everywhere. I guess you have been to rural Alabama lately? Other states have shown increases of jobs after people getting off snap too. Including Maine, since you seem to not think highly or rural Alabama.
Really?
http://www2.labor.alabama.gov/
You should probably do some research first BEFORE making ridiculous statements that have no bearing on reality, Jhhnn. Even if you try to claim some that your were talking about "rural" employment, nobody else was, so that's a red herring argument.
Where does it say that getting a job is getting out of poverty, Jhhnn? Who said that? How about getting a job but getting off the dole? You are employing yet another red herring argument. Stop trying to twist things and bringing bs arguments into the mix. It really gets old.So, employed, but living in poverty anyway. I thought getting a job was about getting out of poverty. Silly me.
I don't think it's obvious. That's why I asked. I don't know what your deal is, but maybe stop calling troll every effin' minute.Pretty obvious. People are going back to work, and off assistance. As the article says, it is not meant to be a long term thing. Hopefully you don't think that is a bad think. Able bodied people with no kids should be working, or bettering themselves otherwise.
As you've replied to several of my posts, you wonder why I said you were trolling? Geez.
^"Liberal"Where does it say that getting a job is getting out of poverty, Jhhnn? Who said that? How about getting a job but getting off the dole? You are employing yet another red herring argument. Stop trying to twist things and bringing bs arguments into the mix. It really gets old.
^"Liberal"
You really don't get it, in a willful way. If there were half assed decent jobs available in poverty stricken Alabama counties they wouldn't be poverty stricken. Click on the map-
http://www.povertyusa.org/the-state-of-poverty/poverty-map-county/
The economy has been collapsing for decades in the poorest parts of this country.
Good ol' Ackmed the Live Conservaterrorist. He will not keeeeel jooooo, but he'll vote for people who will!
So now it's being liberal to think that able bodied persons should sit on their collective asses and suck on the government teat? When did you and Jhhnn feel inclined to redefine what a liberal is, and what gives you the impression you had anywhere near that authority in the first place?^"Liberal"
So now it's being liberal to think that able bodied persons should sit on their collective asses and suck on the government teat? When did you and Jhhnn feel inclined to redefine what a liberal is, and what gives you the impression you had anywhere near that authority in the first place?