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The Food Stamp President

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"CRS report: number of able-bodied adults on food stamps doubled after Obama suspended work requirement

Obama administration officials have insisted that their decision to grant states waivers to redefine work requirements for welfare recipients would not “gut” the landmark 1996 welfare reform law. But a new report from the Congressional Research Service obtained by the Washington Examiner suggests that the administration’s suspension of a separate welfare work requirement has already helped explode the number of able-bodied Americans on food stamps.

In addition to the broader work requirement that has become a contentious issue in the presidential race, the 1996 welfare reform law included a separate rule encouraging able-bodied adults without dependents to work by limiting the amount of time they could receive food stamps. President Obama suspended that rule when he signed his economic stimulus legislation into law, and the number of these adults on food stamps doubled, from 1.9 million in 2008 to 3.9 million in 2010, according to the CRS report, issued in the form of a memo to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va......"
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Sweet.
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States Rights..
Each State defines the program
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Chizzang wrote:States Rights..
Each State defines the program
Suddenly you're a states rights advocate? :? 8-)
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Chizzang wrote:States Rights..
Each State defines the program


as it should be!


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AZGrizFan wrote:
Chizzang wrote:States Rights..
Each State defines the program
Suddenly you're a states rights advocate? :? 8-)
Suddenly you're not..?
And I am only against any rights of anybody or any state if they are not in alignment with our constitution
other than that - I could careless about states rights / neither for them or against them / completely neutral
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