Since Heritage’s Robert Rector and Kiki Bradley broke the story on July 12 that the Obama Administration had gutted the work requirements from the 1996 welfare reform law, the Administration has denied it. In recent weeks, media “fact checks” have popped up all over declaring The Heritage Foundation’s scoop “False.”
Major media—most recently, CNN—have carried water for President Obama’s defense of rewriting the welfare reform law. Since these supposed government watchdogs are playing the lapdog, Heritage will continue to provide the facts and do the investigative reporting.
Rector has already debunked the Administration’s claims that it did not gut welfare reform and that Republican governors tried to do the same thing in 2005. Now, he is taking apart the Administration’s defense of its new waiver policy piece-by-piece in a new series of papers.
The Claim: New Rules Will Still Increase Work
CNN’s “fact checkers” claim that “In some small way, the waivers might change precisely how work is calculated but the essential goal of pushing welfare recipients to work—something both Democrats and Republicans agreed to in the 1990s—remains the same.”
This is exactly Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s defense: that waiving welfare’s work requirements for states under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program will still require states to get welfare recipients into jobs. She maintains that the states will have to “commit that their proposals will move at least 20 percent more people from welfare to work compared to the state’s past performance.”
Read More at heritage.org. By Amy Payne.
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Unemployment is 23% and Nobody will believe this but the voters should know! Thank you Unions, thank you Barack and thank you DNC ………for “nothing” but a very high “Misery Index” in America.
http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/obama-economy-even-worse-than-anticipated/
Well, Sebilius said they were going to give states waivers when that is not permitted under the welfare reform bill sounds like ignoring what was signed into law.
I think when Oblummer gets out of office – instead of him being allowed his ill-earned retirement – he should be put on Welfare for one year – and very strictly enforced and monitored – then let him see where he goes.
Impeach him so he doesn’t get that cushy retirement. Amazing how long it took different groups to see what he’s done – we’ve known that he gutted welfare a long time ago and that he’s made it to where anyone on welfare has an easy time of it. While the rest of us who aren’t working and don’t qualify for any help, can barely report applications for jobs in an already over-saturated employment environment. How long can people remain blind to the maneuvers of this person to destroy us from the inside? The admin ensures a large chunk of society is dependent upon the government and that all others are violating some nonsensical BS policy or law when we voice our discontent with the current administration? The separation and class division has been completed now they are just cleaning up the sidelines and drawing the hard lines on those who get and those who don’t. Send them all packing – preferably as felons or domestic terrorists.