Gregory McFadden:
What launched all this talk was a July 12 directive from the Department of Health and Human Services that announced the states could apply for waivers to rules governing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — welfare.
When we picked up the directive, we expected to find some bombshells.
Instead, we found this:
...
"The Secretary (of HHS) is only interested in approving waivers if the state can explain in compelling fashion why the proposed approach may be a more efficient or effective means to promote employment entry, retention, advancement, or access to jobs that offer opportunities for earnings and advancement that will allow participants to avoid dependence on government benefits."
Wordy, yes. What do you expect from a government directive? But what we didn't see in that sentence, or anywhere else in the memo, was anything that gutted the welfare-to-work law.
What we saw was an opening for the states to get some flexibility to promote new ways to get welfare recipients onto payrolls.
States would be expected to boost by at least 20 percent the number of recipients moving from welfare to work and regularly demonstrate they're moving toward that goal.
me- yes, mitt and his desperate campaign LIES again.
and it was republican governors that ASKED for this language to give states MORE input on how to handle welfare in their own states!
When we picked up the directive, we expected to find some bombshells.
Instead, we found this:
...
"The Secretary (of HHS) is only interested in approving waivers if the state can explain in compelling fashion why the proposed approach may be a more efficient or effective means to promote employment entry, retention, advancement, or access to jobs that offer opportunities for earnings and advancement that will allow participants to avoid dependence on government benefits."
Wordy, yes. What do you expect from a government directive? But what we didn't see in that sentence, or anywhere else in the memo, was anything that gutted the welfare-to-work law.
What we saw was an opening for the states to get some flexibility to promote new ways to get welfare recipients onto payrolls.
States would be expected to boost by at least 20 percent the number of recipients moving from welfare to work and regularly demonstrate they're moving toward that goal.
me- yes, mitt and his desperate campaign LIES again.
and it was republican governors that ASKED for this language to give states MORE input on how to handle welfare in their own states!
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