red states rule
04-10-2013, 03:02 PM
What a shocker! If the government pays people to sit on their ass and not work - guess what? They will sit on their ass and not work
No wonder we have so many people on welfare. Why work when Dems will pay you not to? They are what are known as takers and do not contribute to society - but they do make loyal Democrat voters.
That is what matters most to Dems
Only about one in five D.C. welfare recipients able to work did the necessary job searching required by law to be eligible for government payments in fiscal year 2012, according to Mayor Vincent Gray's budget proposal.
Those requirements can include job training classes or participating in community service activities.
Just 22 percent of welfare recipients whose cases are managed by private vendors -- a majority of those receiving federal funding in the District who have been determined eligible to work, according to the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute -- met federal guidelines. That's even lower than the District's 26 percent target.
The federal government sets a number of possible ways to fulfill welfare work requirements, depending on family size, the families children's ages and their day care situation.
Still, experts say that the number is one that the federal government takes seriously.
"It's the only one that has teeth," said Heather Hahn, senior research associate at the Urban Institute. Despite federal reliance on the data point, Hahn questioned its value, "It's just really hard to know what it means if there's a low rate."
In 2009, when the data was last compiled for all unemployed welfare participants in the United States, the District had a rate near the bottom. Just 10 states were lower, Hahn said.
The work participation rate does not reflect the several thousand welfare recipients who have not even been assigned to an agency that can monitor their progress, workers that successfully exit the welfare program, or people deemed unable to work.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/d.c.-struggles-to-meet-welfare-work-requirements/article/2526504
No wonder we have so many people on welfare. Why work when Dems will pay you not to? They are what are known as takers and do not contribute to society - but they do make loyal Democrat voters.
That is what matters most to Dems
Only about one in five D.C. welfare recipients able to work did the necessary job searching required by law to be eligible for government payments in fiscal year 2012, according to Mayor Vincent Gray's budget proposal.
Those requirements can include job training classes or participating in community service activities.
Just 22 percent of welfare recipients whose cases are managed by private vendors -- a majority of those receiving federal funding in the District who have been determined eligible to work, according to the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute -- met federal guidelines. That's even lower than the District's 26 percent target.
The federal government sets a number of possible ways to fulfill welfare work requirements, depending on family size, the families children's ages and their day care situation.
Still, experts say that the number is one that the federal government takes seriously.
"It's the only one that has teeth," said Heather Hahn, senior research associate at the Urban Institute. Despite federal reliance on the data point, Hahn questioned its value, "It's just really hard to know what it means if there's a low rate."
In 2009, when the data was last compiled for all unemployed welfare participants in the United States, the District had a rate near the bottom. Just 10 states were lower, Hahn said.
The work participation rate does not reflect the several thousand welfare recipients who have not even been assigned to an agency that can monitor their progress, workers that successfully exit the welfare program, or people deemed unable to work.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/d.c.-struggles-to-meet-welfare-work-requirements/article/2526504