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Alabama food stamps drop 85% AFTER work requirements reinstated
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:14 am
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:14 am
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As Mulvaney stated, if you're able bodied you need to be working. PERIOD!
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Thirteen previously exempted Alabama counties saw an 85 percent drop in food stamp participation after work requirements were put in place on Jan. 1, according to the Alabama Department of Human Resources.
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As of Jan. 1, 2017, there were 13,663 able-bodied adults without dependents receiving food stamps statewide. That number dropped to 7,483 by May 1, 2017. Among the 13 counties, there were 5,538 adults ages 18-50 without dependents receiving food stamps as of Jan. 1, 2017. That number dropped to 831 - a decline of about 85 percent - by May 1, 2017.
As Mulvaney stated, if you're able bodied you need to be working. PERIOD!
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Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:15 am to bamarep
Imagine how far that would drop if we instituted a drug test requirement as well.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:16 am to bamarep
While I agree that there should be stringent requirements, you realize unemployment is inherent right?
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:18 am to DisplacedBuckeye
I mean 831 is pretty low. We already pulled over. We can't pull over any farther.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:18 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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Imagine how far that would drop if we instituted a drug test requirement as well.
The crack and meth heads would be frickedddddddd
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:19 am to Gordon Hayward
My purpose wasn't to discuss unemployment.
My intent was to show what obviously there were people receiving entitlements that shouldn't be getting them.
My intent was to show what obviously there were people receiving entitlements that shouldn't be getting them.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:20 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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Imagine how far that would drop if we instituted a drug test requirement as well
I read yesterday where Wisconsin is trying to do just that.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:20 am to bamarep
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Greene, Hale, Perry, Dallas, Lowndes, Wilcox, Monroe, Conecuh, Clarke, Washington, Choctaw, Sumter and Barbour
The counties that saw the biggest drop are mostly in the blackbelt region. This is an area of rich glacial til that was the location of many large plantations. Interestingly enough, many of these counties now vote democrat.
This post was edited on 6/6/17 at 11:22 am
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:21 am to Gordon Hayward
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While I agree that there should be stringent requirements, you realize unemployment is inherent right?
Sure, and do you admit that there absolutely are people in this country who will not get a job, because our welfare system allows them to make that choice?
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:21 am to bamarep
Yea, I was just pointing out the impossibility of every single able-bodied person being gainfully employed. I agree with most, just not that part is all.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:22 am to HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
Yea, I agreed. Just wasn't okay with the blanket assumption made with the last statement.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:22 am to bamarep
Getting a job is the best thing for them. Not because it gets them off of food stamps, but because putting money in your pocket that you earned has an incredible ability to restore your pride and self worth. If you're just taking a check and not earning it, you just get trapped in the hopelessness of this is just the way life is. Take away someone's hope and pride and you essentially break a person.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:25 am to bamarep
quote:Yes, but how high have the DEATH RATES INCREASED !!!
Alabama food stamps drop 85% AFTER work requirements reinstated
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:27 am to Eli Goldfinger
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The counties that saw the biggest drop are mostly in the blackbelt region. This is an area of rich glacial til that was the location of many large plantations. Interestingly enough, many of these counties now vote democrat.
This area also has the highest rates of unemployment. Good jobs are hard to come by there, which is why they were exempted from the requirement until this year.
I don't have a problem with this.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:27 am to Gordon Hayward
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I mean 831 is pretty low.
1. In Alabama. Why limit it to them?
2. Zero is the goal, no?
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:30 am to bamarep
I had to stop reading the comments on AL.com. People are actually angry about this. I just don't understand how they see this as a bad thing. 
This post was edited on 6/6/17 at 11:31 am
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:31 am to Pinecone Repair
That just goes to show you how damn stupid most liberals are.
It's now a bad thing for people to be self sufficient.
It's now a bad thing for people to be self sufficient.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:32 am to Pinecone Repair
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AL.com
If not for the sports reporting, this website would go under with the quickness.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:32 am to The Spleen
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Good jobs are hard to come by there,
This is a nonsense excuse. People who are unemployed and hungry don't have the option of waiting for a "good job" nor should they. Take ANY job and if you're not satisfied keep looking for a "good job" as you work.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 11:32 am to DisplacedBuckeye
Zero is impossible**
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