Foodstamps for able bodied childless adults down 80% in Maine following 6 hr/week work requirement
Apr 12, 2015 10:05:57 #
Requiring 6 hours volunteer work each week apparently too much for some childless adults.
Foodstamp enrollment by able bodied childless adults in Maine (which has a conservative Republican governor) is down 80% after imposing a very modest requirement that recipients work at least 6 hours a week in a volunteer program. Of course, the media portrays this as an exercise in cruelty.
The food pantry here, just off the main d**g in this neat college town, gets busiest on Wednesdays, when the parking lot is jammed and clients squeeze into the lobby, flipping through books left on a communal shelf as they wait their turn to select about a weeks worth of food.
The Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program is intended to be a supplemental food pantry, but a growing number of clients here and at pantries around the state have little else to rely on because of a change in state policy this year.
These are the l***hes who don't want to even work 6 hours a week for their check.
Last year, the administration of Gov. Paul R. LePage, a Republican, decided to reimpose a three-month limit (out of every three-year period) on food stamps for a group often known as Abawds able-bodied adults without minor dependents unless they work 20 hours per week, take state job-training courses or volunteer for about six hours per week. The number of Abawds receiving food stamps in Maine has dropped nearly 80 percent since the rule kicked in, to 2,530 from about 12,000.
It means life gets tougher for those childless adults who face barriers already getting back into work, said Ed Bolen, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He said those adults tended to have limited education and faced a postrecession labor market in which many people who want to work still cannot find jobs.
Please pass me the world's smallest violin. They don't have to get jobs. They just have to volunteer six hours a week.
If the job situation in the area is a really a tough situation, this is an incredibly harsh provision, said Ellen Vollinger, the legal and food stamp director for the Food Research and Action Center. Theres going to be harm, and its going to show up in greater hunger.
Ellen is overlooking the fact, just stated above, that they don't have to get a job. They just have to volunteer six hours a week.
Around the country, food pantry directors are girding for an influx of hungry adults as the work requirement re-emerges.
This I believe. The parasites will gravitate to wherever the no-strings-attached free food can be found.
Were going to run out of food, said Sherrie Tussler, the executive director of the Hunger Task Force Milwaukee. Its going to cause wide-scale hunger here in Milwaukee, and were in trouble.
Do you think the hunger pangs will be strong enough to get these people to volunteer for six hours a week?
Jackie Dulack, 38, picked up bread and pork at the Brunswick pantry,
I love how they call these places "pantries," in order to be cute or elicit sympathy. They're not part of someone's kitchen; they're grubby homeless shelters, filled mostly with drug addicts, mentally ill people, and people too lazy to work (with some natural overlap between categories).
and had no plan for when the food ran out. Ms. Dulack, who said she was unemployed and had no income, received a letter from the state last fall saying she would lose her food stamps if she did not meet the work requirement. She said that her food stamps had since been cut off and that the general assistance office had told her that she would need to be working to get them back.
No where does it say in the article what her objection to volunteering six hours a week is. The article simply presumes she will starve.
Let's face it, 80% of the able bodied childless adults in Maine on Foodstamps didn't need it. Truly hungry people would eagerly volunteer six hours a week for free food. I suspect this 80% figure applies nationwide. Sure, you'll see photos of long lines at "pantries," but most on line will simply be parasites getting their free food, to lazy to work even six hours a week for it.
NewsMachete
Foodstamp enrollment by able bodied childless adults in Maine (which has a conservative Republican governor) is down 80% after imposing a very modest requirement that recipients work at least 6 hours a week in a volunteer program. Of course, the media portrays this as an exercise in cruelty.
The food pantry here, just off the main d**g in this neat college town, gets busiest on Wednesdays, when the parking lot is jammed and clients squeeze into the lobby, flipping through books left on a communal shelf as they wait their turn to select about a weeks worth of food.
The Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program is intended to be a supplemental food pantry, but a growing number of clients here and at pantries around the state have little else to rely on because of a change in state policy this year.
These are the l***hes who don't want to even work 6 hours a week for their check.
Last year, the administration of Gov. Paul R. LePage, a Republican, decided to reimpose a three-month limit (out of every three-year period) on food stamps for a group often known as Abawds able-bodied adults without minor dependents unless they work 20 hours per week, take state job-training courses or volunteer for about six hours per week. The number of Abawds receiving food stamps in Maine has dropped nearly 80 percent since the rule kicked in, to 2,530 from about 12,000.
It means life gets tougher for those childless adults who face barriers already getting back into work, said Ed Bolen, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He said those adults tended to have limited education and faced a postrecession labor market in which many people who want to work still cannot find jobs.
Please pass me the world's smallest violin. They don't have to get jobs. They just have to volunteer six hours a week.
If the job situation in the area is a really a tough situation, this is an incredibly harsh provision, said Ellen Vollinger, the legal and food stamp director for the Food Research and Action Center. Theres going to be harm, and its going to show up in greater hunger.
Ellen is overlooking the fact, just stated above, that they don't have to get a job. They just have to volunteer six hours a week.
Around the country, food pantry directors are girding for an influx of hungry adults as the work requirement re-emerges.
This I believe. The parasites will gravitate to wherever the no-strings-attached free food can be found.
Were going to run out of food, said Sherrie Tussler, the executive director of the Hunger Task Force Milwaukee. Its going to cause wide-scale hunger here in Milwaukee, and were in trouble.
Do you think the hunger pangs will be strong enough to get these people to volunteer for six hours a week?
Jackie Dulack, 38, picked up bread and pork at the Brunswick pantry,
I love how they call these places "pantries," in order to be cute or elicit sympathy. They're not part of someone's kitchen; they're grubby homeless shelters, filled mostly with drug addicts, mentally ill people, and people too lazy to work (with some natural overlap between categories).
and had no plan for when the food ran out. Ms. Dulack, who said she was unemployed and had no income, received a letter from the state last fall saying she would lose her food stamps if she did not meet the work requirement. She said that her food stamps had since been cut off and that the general assistance office had told her that she would need to be working to get them back.
No where does it say in the article what her objection to volunteering six hours a week is. The article simply presumes she will starve.
Let's face it, 80% of the able bodied childless adults in Maine on Foodstamps didn't need it. Truly hungry people would eagerly volunteer six hours a week for free food. I suspect this 80% figure applies nationwide. Sure, you'll see photos of long lines at "pantries," but most on line will simply be parasites getting their free food, to lazy to work even six hours a week for it.
NewsMachete
Apr 12, 2015 11:11:21 #
Let's call forced labor or volunteering, what is really is: s***ery. Will the state of Maine provide the addition clothing or t***sportation to the job, which will add to the financial burden of a person? To withhold food from hungry people in order to provide free labor is barbaric, uncivilized and inhuman.
It is the very reason I give nothing to Good Will. Instead of providing s***es why not retrain people to obtain a paying position? I do not and never will believe all the poor people in this country are lazy. I believe the elite are greedy, inhumane, and the world would be better off without them.
It is the very reason I give nothing to Good Will. Instead of providing s***es why not retrain people to obtain a paying position? I do not and never will believe all the poor people in this country are lazy. I believe the elite are greedy, inhumane, and the world would be better off without them.
Apr 12, 2015 11:43:45 #
She Wolf wrote:
Let's call forced labor or volunteering, what is ... (show quote)
Now isn't that just peachy. Tell you what. You want to give these people all the free food, then YOU supply it. Your the one that feels sorry for these jerks. They are not being forced to do a thing, including living off the backs of others. And just for your information, I have been in their place with no job, no money, and no place to live and I still got out of it. If I can do it, so can they, but they are not even trying.
I am more then willing to help someone get back on their feet, but I do not want to feed them for the rest of their lives because they are to lazy to work.
Apr 12, 2015 11:52:48 #
MrEd wrote:
Now isn't that just peachy. Tell you what. You wan... (show quote)
I would much rather my tax dollars go to feeding the hungry than corporate welfare for the rich. I do supply food to our co-op. I do a great deal of volunteer work while working full time.
I am glad you were able to get out of the situation. Did you do it with no assistance from anyone? If so then why not help the people who can't seem to escape learn how.
Apr 12, 2015 12:18:26 #
She Wolf wrote:
Let's call forced labor or volunteering, what is ... (show quote)
Why are you opposed to working for six hours per week in order to receive free food?
Apr 12, 2015 12:32:41 #
PoppaGringo wrote:
Why are you opposed to working for six hours per week in order to receive free food?
My tax dollars are going for even more corporate well fare. As a tax payer, I am paying for six hours of free labor. I would rather give the food to the hungry than give another government subsidy to a business. Why would you want to give a business six hours of tax payers money to assist their bottom line?
Apr 12, 2015 12:55:02 #
She Wolf wrote:
Let's call forced labor or volunteering, what is ... (show quote)
How can you call it forced labor, or s***ery? They are working for their food. I don't see 6 hours per week being unreasonable at all. I think all welfare programs should have community service requirements.
I don't mind helping people at all who are trying to help themselves. Assistance should be just that, assistance. Not a career.
Apr 12, 2015 14:07:20 #
archie bunker wrote:
How can you call it forced labor, or s***ery? They are working for their food. I don't see 6 hours per week being unreasonable at all. I think all welfare programs should have community service requirements.
I don't mind helping people at all who are trying to help themselves. Assistance should be just that, assistance. Not a career.
I don't mind helping people at all who are trying to help themselves. Assistance should be just that, assistance. Not a career.
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She evidently feels it is cruel and inhumane to have people work for their food.
Apr 12, 2015 15:20:57 #
She Wolf wrote:
My tax dollars are going for even more corporate well fare. As a tax payer, I am paying for six hours of free labor. I would rather give the food to the hungry than give another government subsidy to a business. Why would you want to give a business six hours of tax payers money to assist their bottom line?
Okay, I'll go along with stopping any corporate welfare, ... if you liberals will go along with stopping all deadbeat welfare.
Apr 12, 2015 15:28:57 #
Ricko
Loc: Florida
Trooper745 wrote:
Okay, I'll go along with stopping any corporate welfare, ... if you liberals will go along with stopping all deadbeat welfare.
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Apr 12, 2015 15:55:42 #
Great post JMHO, it has always been my belief that those receiving assistance should volunteer some time to their city, county ,etc.. for the assistance they receive. I would think that would be a positive motivator for the recipient to not only get out there to start helping themselves, but also that is should instill at least a little p***e in oneself, knowing that they are at least contributing for the assistance they are receiving.
Apr 12, 2015 16:00:33 #
Trooper745 wrote:
Okay, I'll go along with stopping any corporate welfare, ... if you liberals will go along with stopping all deadbeat welfare.
And I will stand with you. :thumbup:
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