How Many People Are Not Even Looking For Work

[saden1]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Our area did a good job with getting people back working when Clinton and Congress passed the Welfair reform bill but that was all just blowing out of the water with the stimulas package. So now welfare requirments are pretty much back to what they were before they passed the reform. I agree I'd take a week or so off but I'd want to find a job and save that severence money away for retirement.

Huh? I didn't know unemployment and welfare were interchangeable. Did I miss something with the stimulus? Or are you just being a stimulus hater who think the stimulus is another form of welfare?

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by saden1

Huh? I didn't know unemployment and welfare were interchangeable. Did I miss something with the stimulus? Or are you just being a stimulus hater who think the stimulus is another form of welfare?

No the stimulas bill took away the way states had to account for getting people off welfair which was passed as sweeping reforms by Clinton and congress. It waters it down so they really don't have to account for getting people off welfair. I have read this several times and unless it was removed by from the stimulas bill in the last minute it was in there. Its like they now let the sates use numbers in only ways the goverment knows how to. You know like when they cut spending but they only cut how much they increase spending but still call it a cut.

Her is an article that explains what they did.Obama's stimulus bill reverses Clinton's welfare reform | Midwest Voices