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"Gov. John Kasich's administration will limit food stamps for more than 130,000 adults in all but a few economically depressed areas starting Jan. 1. To qualify for benefits, able-bodied adults without children will be required to spend at least 20 hours a week working, training for a job, volunteering or performing a similar type of activity unless they live in one of 16 counties exempt because of high unemployment. The requirements begin next month; however, those failing to meet them would not lose benefits until Jan. 1. More than 1.8 million Ohioans receive food stamps, with the average individual benefit about $132 a month. Of them, an estimated 134,000 adults in 72 Ohio counties will be subject to the work requirements, including 15,000 in Franklin County. They are ages 18 to 50, without children under 18, and deemed to be physically and mentally able to participate, Johnson said."
Seems like a drop in the bucket but what do you think, will the food stamp rolls decrease in Ohio? I wonder if this includes fathers who pay for children that don't live with them and who never married the mother.
FDR -- as liberal as he was, had those work programs back in the Great Depression. They weren't efficient but people didn't just lay around doing nothing at all, they had to show up at a work site and be handed a shovel and even pretend they wanted to work.
No one with an IQ over 70, two arms and two legs should expected to be handed everything for free.
As long as the requirements remain in the public interest, it doesn't interfere with genuine efforts to seek other employment, and there are enough opportunities for everyone affected to comply, then this is a great idea.
As long as the requirements remain in the public interest, it doesn't interfere with genuine efforts to seek other employment, and there are enough opportunities for everyone affected to comply, then this is a great idea.
I despise the governor of Ohio but I agree that this could be a good idea.
"Gov. John Kasich's administration will limit food stamps for more than 130,000 adults in all but a few economically depressed areas starting Jan. 1. To qualify for benefits, able-bodied adults without children will be required to spend at least 20 hours a week working, training for a job, volunteering or performing a similar type of activity unless they live in one of 16 counties exempt because of high unemployment. The requirements begin next month; however, those failing to meet them would not lose benefits until Jan. 1. More than 1.8 million Ohioans receive food stamps, with the average individual benefit about $132 a month. Of them, an estimated 134,000 adults in 72 Ohio counties will be subject to the work requirements, including 15,000 in Franklin County. They are ages 18 to 50, without children under 18, and deemed to be physically and mentally able to participate, Johnson said."
Seems like a drop in the bucket but what do you think, will the food stamp rolls decrease in Ohio? I wonder if this includes fathers who pay for children that don't live with them and who never married the mother.
I'm okay with it as long as job training is free, but I bet Kasich would never support that.
FDR -- as liberal as he was, had those work programs back in the Great Depression. They weren't efficient but people didn't just lay around doing nothing at all, they had to show up at a work site and be handed a shovel and even pretend they wanted to work.
No one with an IQ over 70, two arms and two legs should expected to be handed everything for free.
Here in Texas, we have great examples of the quality work done by the CCC and WPA. work that will last for a hundred more years. The money earned kept their families alive before the days of food stamps.
It's a lousy idea. A politician has no business treating one constituent different than another. So if I do not want to work I simply move to an already depressed area making it even more depressed.
Why is it wrong for those in depressed areas to undertake training?
Here in Texas, we have great examples of the quality work done by the CCC and WPA. work that will last for a hundred more years. The money earned kept their families alive before the days of food stamps.
Yes, there were also very good work projects for the unemployed that FDR had carried out.
Look at positives in work. 1. Keeps people getting out of their apartments and houses doing something productive, interacting with co-workers, bosses, etc. 2. Lots of work needs to be done. Graffitti and ghetto cleanup, abandoned houses and buildings need cleaning. 3. Highway beautification, trees to plant, litter to clean up.
Yes, there were also very good work projects for the unemployed that FDR had carried out.
Look at positives in work. 1. Keeps people getting out of their apartments and houses doing something productive, interacting with co-workers, bosses, etc. 2. Lots of work needs to be done. Graffitti and ghetto cleanup, abandoned houses and buildings need cleaning. 3. Highway beautification, trees to plant, litter to clean up.
It's a lousy idea. A politician has no business treating one constituent different than another. So if I do not want to work I simply move to an already depressed area making it even more depressed.
Why is it wrong for those in depressed areas to undertake training?
Training for what, and at what cost?
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