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From the United Press International
White House report: Most welfare recipients able to hold jobs, but aren't
July 12 (UPI) -- A White House report said Thursday most Americans living in poverty who receive government benefits are not working, even though they are able to -- a published backing for the Trump administration's plan to impose new work requirements for welfare recipients.
The 66-page report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers said poverty numbers of non-disabled adults are "a deeply flawed reflection of material hardship."
The study said most non-disabled working-age adults who receive Medicaid, 61 percent, do not work or work very few hours.
The other two major welfare programs, Medicaid and food stamps, have similar numbers. The report said more than two-thirds of SNAP food stamp recipients and 59 percent who receive housing assistance are unemployed.
COMMENT:-
The report appears to be accurate as far as it goes.
Unfortunately I was NOT able to find where in the report it showed the number of jobs that were AVAILABLE for those "welfare slackers" to get. NOR was I able to find where the report showed that those "welfare slackers" actually had either "work skills" or "job skills" (and the two are not the same thing) which would induce anyone to actually hire them if there was a job available. NOR was I able to find where the report showed that it would actually be "economically viable" for those "welfare slackers" to "hold a job" at the wages which that job would pay (assuming that there is a job available [and assuming that they had the "work skills" and/or "job skills" required for that job]).
White House report: Most welfare recipients able to hold jobs, but aren't
July 12 (UPI) -- A White House report said Thursday most Americans living in poverty who receive government benefits are not working, even though they are able to -- a published backing for the Trump administration's plan to impose new work requirements for welfare recipients.
The 66-page report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers said poverty numbers of non-disabled adults are "a deeply flawed reflection of material hardship."
The study said most non-disabled working-age adults who receive Medicaid, 61 percent, do not work or work very few hours.
The other two major welfare programs, Medicaid and food stamps, have similar numbers. The report said more than two-thirds of SNAP food stamp recipients and 59 percent who receive housing assistance are unemployed.
COMMENT:-
The report appears to be accurate as far as it goes.
Unfortunately I was NOT able to find where in the report it showed the number of jobs that were AVAILABLE for those "welfare slackers" to get. NOR was I able to find where the report showed that those "welfare slackers" actually had either "work skills" or "job skills" (and the two are not the same thing) which would induce anyone to actually hire them if there was a job available. NOR was I able to find where the report showed that it would actually be "economically viable" for those "welfare slackers" to "hold a job" at the wages which that job would pay (assuming that there is a job available [and assuming that they had the "work skills" and/or "job skills" required for that job]).
[NOTE - By "economically viable" I mean that the job must pay enough to increase the person's income sufficiently to offset the additional costs that the person has to incur if they take that job. Those costs could include additional clothing costs, additional transportation costs, additional child care costs, additional food costs, and increased medical insurance costs, just for starters. If the employment income does not cover those increased costs, then the job is not "economically viable" for that person (although it might well be "economically viable for another).]