States brace for new welfare regulations

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - No more bed rest, going on errands for a friend or reading the "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" to fulfill work requirements for welfare.

The Bush administration will issue new regulations Wednesday that clarify what states can count when it comes to work participation under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program.

Under the law, states are supposed to have at least half of their welfare recipients in approved work activities or face cuts in funding of up to 5 percent. However, states have been on their own in defining those work activities.

Some have gone too far, the administration says.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060627/ap_on_go_pr_wh/welfare_work

[rkc3]

1. Tell me again how the repubs are for state's rights?

How they want to stay out of state and local governments?

[undergroundpanther]

2. When I did volunteer work

Doing paste up and graphics for a local newspaper out here..

I basically got so involved with the art, the boss had to tell me I missed lunch several times.
I have ADHD and hyper-focus is one symptom of it. I can get so focused on a task I don't notice I'm thirsty hungry or gonna pass out from hunger.Add in PSTD and either I'd be ripe to be exploited or I'd kink out from exhaustion and be told to go home and sleep.
The guy was kind enough to let me take a lunch break even though i missed the official hour quite a few days.Sometimes I guess he was concerned when I would look kinda peaked from not eating all day with that god awful paste up glue all over my fingers,and he said something to me.He was the kind of guy who was all over the floor,he was not a micro manager type and he was pretty cool guy.
The coworkers however were a bunch of harpies they had art degrees and resented the hell out of me,they were bullies to me in middle school ,and it drove them nuts that my work was picked for publication most often.I left because they humiliated the shit out of me. I wish I didn't have to go I kinda liked it there.

I do not expect comfortable,smug ,poor bashing,rich politicians to bother to empathize with others,think of others real life situations people trying to assimilate into work,they don't HAVE to think about it,and nobody makes them care,because they are well protected from the harshness of reality by their piles of money,political influence, and their back scratching brown nosing associates and other people who think just like they do.

Bed rest might have been a requirement for me,if I ended up working there full time,because of the hyper focus issue.I could have and have done it before, I worked my body to actual exhaustion focused on a project.And what I was oblivious to is I needed to just SLEEP and recharge myself eat, and take a break.Having ADHD can do that to you.
There are alot of reasons why a person needs to learn HOW to balance work, rest and recreation to stay healthy and safe,at home at work or everywhere if they are not used to doing it.
When this management of the"spheres" of life" gets out of balance the body,mind and work ability suffers for it.And the person suffering from it ain't always aware it is happening.

I don't expect the state to figure it out.

[Breeze54]

3. When do they go after corporate welfare?

[Moderator]

4. K

[Judi Lynn]

5. New Rules Force States to Curb Welfare Rolls

New Rules Force States to Curb Welfare Rolls
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: June 28, 2006

WASHINGTON, June 27 — The Bush administration plans to issue sweeping new rules on Wednesday that will require states to move much larger numbers of poor people from welfare to work.

The rules, drafted in response to a budget signed into law by President Bush in February, represent the biggest changes in welfare policy since 1996, when Congress abolished the federal guarantee of cash assistance for the nation's poorest children.

Since then, the number of welfare recipients has plunged more than 60 percent, to 4.4 million people, from 12.2 million. Most of the decline occurred in the first years, before the 2001 recession. Federal and state officials say they expect the new rules to speed the decline in welfare rolls, which has slowed in recent years.

The rules are far more than a bureaucratic application of the new law, passed after four years of partisan deadlock. For the first time, they set a uniform definition for permissible work activities and require states to verify and document the number of hours worked by welfare recipients.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/washington/28welfare.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[spindrifter]

6. Maybe the People need Signing Statements

It would work this way: the administration issues rules or declares wars by fiat, and we just say, no way. We aren't going for it.

[Rex]

7. Corporate welfare rolls?

Corporate profits and tax breaks (welfare) are at an all time high. Repukes are pro-business and anti-democracy.

[951-Riverside]

8. I wonder it applies to those white bigamists & polygamist in Utah

[HuffleClaw]

9. and THEN...

...they'll announce a 'huge success', that 'tens of thousands of people have freed themselves from the liberal chains of welfare'

[Erika]

10. The uber rich can't remain that way without very cheap labor

They want all the welfare people and immigrant labor out there they can get to maximize their profits. The more the better. W agrees with them 100%, duh. But who is actually picking up the costs of their schooling, medical needs, etc. We are.

In W's corrupted capitalism, the rich pay the poor very little and then depend on the middle class to pay for poor's societal needs.