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Welfare ... Government benefits distributed to impoverished persons to enable
them to maintain a minimum standard of well-being.
Providing welfare benefits has been controversial throughout U.S. history. Since
the colonial period, government welfare policy has reflected the belief that the
indigent are responsible for their poverty, leading to the principle that
governmental benefits are a privilege and not a right. Until the Great
Depression of the 1930s, state and local governments bore some responsibility
for providing assistance to the poor. Generally, such assistance was minimal at
best, with church and volunteer agencies providing the bulk of any aid.
The new deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt included new federal initiatives to help those in poverty. With
millions of people unemployed during the 1930s economic depression, welfare
assistance was beyond the financial resources of the states. Therefore, the
federal government provided funds either directly to recipients or to the states
for maintaining a minimum standard of living.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/law/law/welfare
-- 2016 --
Undated: Donald
Trump on Welfare & Poverty
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Donald_Trump_Welfare_+_Poverty.htm
August 29: Welfare reform and the end of
political compromise ...
Poverty Studies
https://www.aei.org/publication/welfare-reform-and-the-end-of-political-compromise/
-- 2017 --
May 22: Trump's Budget Cuts Deeply Into
Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts
President Trump plans
to unveil on Tuesday a $4.1 trillion budget for
2018 that would cut deeply into programs for the poor, from health care and food
stamps to student loans and disability payments, laying out an austere vision
for reordering the nation’s priorities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html
June 22: President
Donald Trump proposed Wednesday night reforming the welfare system by
putting into law a statute that has been the law of the land since 1996.
With a few exceptions, new immigrants already cannot access welfare programs
during their first five years in the US, per a 1996 welfare reform law signed by
President Bill Clinton.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/trump-immigrants-welfare-5-years/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
October 16: President Donald Trump said
Monday his administration will start to consider reforming the welfare system in
the United States, saying that some people are "taking advantage of the system."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/president-donald-trump-welfare-reform/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
October 16:
Celena McDonnell, a nursing assistant from Endicott, New York, had urged Trump
to "stop implying that Americans on welfare aren't working."
"A statement like Trump's is a generalization, a stereotype," she
wrote in The Washington Post. "Most of us are employed; however, many on
welfare are struggling to earn a living wage. And we need some extra help."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/president-donald-trump-welfare-reform/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
November 24:
Donald Trump wants welfare reform, says ‘people are taking advantage of
the system’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-wants-welfare-reform-says-people-are-taking-advantage-of-the-system
November 29:
President Donald Trump delivered remarks on tax reform Wednesday in St. Charles,
Missouri. Trump also spoke about welfare reform and said he has met people who
are on welfare, do not "work at all," and make more money than a person who is
"working his and her ass off."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/11/29/trump_some_welfare_recipients_make_more_money_than_person_working_their_ass_off.html
-- 2018 --
April 10: Trump calls on his Cabinet to
propose stronger work requirements for welfare across the board.
The executive order calls on federal agencies to enforce current work
requirements, propose additional, stronger requirements, and find savings (in
other words, make cuts), and to give states more flexibility to run welfare
programs.
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17221292/trump-welfare-executive-order-work-requirements
April 11: Trump’s Executive Order On
‘Welfare’ Doesn’t Do Anything — At Least Not Yet ... The order is more about
messaging than policy in the short term.
President
Donald Trump signed an
executive order
on Tuesday that ostensibly cracks down on loafing among welfare recipients.
The order itself will have
no immediate effect on any program or benefit. Like
many other executive orders
before, all it
does is direct agencies to review their policies and eventually make
suggestions.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-executive-order-on-welfare-doesnt-do-anything-at-least-not-yet_us_5ace3446e4b0701783aa7b31
May 10: Trump Voters Would Be Hit
Hardest by GOP’s Food Stamp Work Rules
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/trump-voters-would-be-hit-hardest-by-gop-s-food-stamp-work-rules
May 12: Trump’s welfare reform plan
misses a key piece: Transportation
When President Bill Clinton launched his landmark effort to move Americans from
welfare to work more than 20 years ago, it sparked significant investment in
transportation for those who did not own a car or have access to affordable or
reliable public transit.
The Clinton plan required those receiving assistance to work or look for work.
Many of those welfare recipients benefited from the federally funded Bridges to
Work program, a $17 million investment from the Department of Housing and Urban
Development that helped provide new transportation services in five cities
around the country.
But advocates for those who rely on public assistance say the Trump plan,
highlighted in several recent executive orders, increases work requirements
without taking into account that those who need the benefits have little or no
access to transportation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/trumps-welfare-reform-plan-misses-a-key-piece-transportation/2018/05/12/9e7ba684-538c-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2282b5e5878a
May 22: Trump’s
New ‘Work for Welfare’ Rules Protect Poor Whites at the Expense of Urban Blacks
https://www.theroot.com/trump-s-new-work-for-welfare-requirements-miraculousl-1826235045
June 21: White
House to Propose Merging Labor and Education Departments, Rebranding Welfare
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/trump-to-propose-merging-labor-and-education-departments.html?gtm=top>m=top
June 21: Trump’s
proposal to reorganize government places target on social-welfare system
The president’s plan would adjust social-welfare programs so they are easier to
cut, scale back or restructure, among them a food subsistence benefit that
provides aid to 42 million people.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-proposal-to-reorganize-government-places-target-on-social-welfare-system/
June 22: Why Trump Wants a Department of
Public Welfare
A sweeping plan to reform the federal government could be considered an effort
to undo the New Deal with a single org chart.
... this new office might as well be the Department of Has a Giant Target on Its
Back. While the proposal is detailed, some of its core recommendations are built
upon misleading presumptions.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/06/donald-trump-mick-mulvaney-welfare-department-plan/563432/
July 24:
Republican Senators: Trump’s Farmer ‘Welfare’ Won’t Work
GOP senators are furious about the Trump administration’s plan to give $12
billion to farmers hurt by Trump’s own trade war.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-senators-trumps-farmer-welfare-wont-work
July 25: Top
Republicans rip Trump’s farm-aid plan as ‘welfare,’ ‘Soviet type of economy’
Corker, Sasse, others assail $12 billion plan to help farmers hurt by tariffs
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/top-republicans-rip-trumps-farm-aid-plan-as-welfare-soviet-type-of-economy-2018-07-24
July 25: Welfare
Work Requirements Will Ease Poverty and Improve Our Labor Force
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/welfare-work-requirements-will-ease-poverty-improve-labor-force/
August 7: The Trump administration is
advancing a plan to punish legal immigrants for accepting food stamps, public
housing and other government benefits they are entitled to — a strategy that
appeals to conservatives and could help to galvanize Republican voters before
the midterm elections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/us/politics/legal-immigrants-welfare-republicans-trump.html
August 9:
According to a February report by
Reuters, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
wants to know if foreigners living temporarily in the United States use public
benefits — such as food assistance, subsidies for utility bills, or government
funded child care. The agency would then consider their costs to Americans
before granting them permanent residency.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34270/trumps-welfare-ban-immigrants-would-save-57-joseph-curl
August 18:
Black Conservatives Applaud HUD’s Abandonment of
“Diversity Goals”
New plans by the Trump Administration to refocus public
housing policy on supply and affordability rather than diversity are being
applauded by members of the Project
21 black leadership network. This policy change rescinds
an Obama-era mandate that is “actually suffocating investment in some of our
most distressed neighborhoods,” according
to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) Secretary Ben Carson.
“Public housing isn’t supposed to be permanent
housing,” said Project 21 Co-Chairman Council
Nedd II, who is also an Anglican bishop. “Government should prioritize
availability and affordability over location ? especially when using taxpayer
money. The goal must be to provide a safety net and a hand-up, not create a
perverse diversity that values holding people together over allowing them all to
rise.”
https://www.usadailychronicles.com/black-conservatives-applaud-huds-abandonment-of-diversity-goals/
August 22: After
having vetoed two welfare reform bills, on this day in 1996 President Bill
Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation
Act. The legislation substantially reconstructed the nation’s welfare system by
giving state governments more autonomy over welfare services while also reducing
the federal government's role.
Drafted by Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio) in a GOP-controlled Congress, the act ended
welfare as an entitlement program; required recipients to begin working after
two years of receiving benefits; placed a lifetime limit of five years on
benefits paid by federal funds; sought to encourage two-parent families and to
discourage out-of-wedlock births; enhanced enforcement of child support, and
required state professional and occupational licenses to be withheld from
undocumented immigrants.
While it moved mothers from welfare to work, many of them were not making enough
money to thrive, Edelman argued. Others, he said, were pushed off welfare rolls
because they didn't show up for an appointment, because they could not get to an
appointment for lack of child care or because they were not notified.
Welfare and poverty rates both declined during the late 1990s, however, leading
some observers to view the legislation as a success.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/22/clinton-signs-welfare-to-work-bill-aug-22-1996-790321
September 8: Let
“saints” help teen moms; restrict public assistance
Teenage mothers [shouldn’t] get public assistance unless they jump through some
pretty small hoops. Making them live in group homes makes sense. A lot of these
girls didn’t have fathers or full-time parents. But there are people-I think we
can call them saints-who dedicate their lives to helping kids like this. Whoever
they are, and whether they work out of a church, a temple, or some kind of
public facility, they deserve all our support.
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Donald_Trump_Welfare_+_Poverty.htm
September 24: [From "why do people love -or
hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
19. He cuts government services.
If you’re looking for work and need food stamps so you don’t starve to death
before you find a job, or if you’re a single mother with a deadbeat husband and
two babies to feed, or if you’re a mentally ill person in desperate need of care
or you very might well harm yourself or others, don’t look to President Trump.
He doesn’t care.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/
October 9: How
Trump administration plans to screen green card applicants’ use of government
welfare benefits
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/09/how-trump-plans-screen-green-card-applicants-welfare-benefits/1414448002/
December 20:
Trump Proposes Stricter Work Requirements for Food Stamps
Congress may have reached a farm bill compromise, but that conciliatory mood
hasn’t reached the Trump administration. On Thursday, the USDA announced a
proposed rule that would, if it goes into effect, attach strict work
requirements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps.
In a
press release, the USDA asserted that the rule would “restore the system to
what it was meant to be: assistance through difficult times, not lifelong
dependency.” The rule would accomplish something congressional Republicans
failed to do in the farm bill: expand work-for-welfare and ultimately shrink
entitlement programs like SNAP. “Long-term reliance on government assistance has
never been part of the American dream,” the release quotes Agriculture Secretary
Sonny Perdue. “As we make benefits available to those who truly need them, we
must also encourage participants to take proactive steps toward
self-sufficiency. Moving people to work is common-sense policy, particularly at
a time when the unemployment rate is at a generational low.”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/trump-proposes-stricter-work-requirements-for-food-stamps.html
December 21:
Trump Signs $867B Bipartisan Farm Bill with Welfare
Reform Work Requirements
“While SNAP requires able-bodied individuals to work 80 hours a month or
participate in a job training program to maintain eligibility for benefits,
states have been allowed to obtain waivers for extended periods based on local
unemployment rates. The
proposed rule seeks to curtail ‘widespread use’ of waivers that the Trump
Administration believes were meant for "temporary relief… in an economic
downturn."
The proposed regulation applies to adults 18-48, who don’t have dependents, and
are able-bodied. Pregnant women and disabled persons are exempt from work
requirements.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/trump-signs-867b-bipartisan-farm-bill-welfare-reform-work-requirements
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