Welfare

[Spartans9312]

How Does Employment, or Unemployment, Affect Health?

A steady job in safe working conditions can provide numerous benefits critical to maintaining proper health, while unemployment is associated with negative health effects.

www.rwjf.org

Connection to work improves health outcomes and promotes the dignity of the individual by empowering people to provide for themselves and their families, and to give back to their communities.
Promote work

 

[Cortez88]

How Does Employment, or Unemployment, Affect Health?

A steady job in safe working conditions can provide numerous benefits critical to maintaining proper health, while unemployment is associated with negative health effects.

www.rwjf.org

Connection to work improves health outcomes and promotes the dignity of the individual by empowering people to provide for themselves and their families, and to give back to their communities.
Promote work

Don’t we all think this? I’ve never heard anyone suggest otherwise. That’s why I’m always a little skeptical when I hear the refrain that “nobody wants to work these days”. I simply don’t believe that. It’s much more complex and involves looking at a number of different variables - federal UI, child care, wages, etc.

 

[Spartans9312]

Don’t we all think this? I’ve never heard anyone suggest otherwise. That’s why I’m always a little skeptical when I hear the refrain that “nobody wants to work these days”. I simply don’t believe that. It’s much more complex and involves looking at a number of different variables - federal UI, child care, wages, etc.

Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means (Green Book) - Section 8. Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Related Programs (Title IV-A)

www.govinfo.gov

Before bipartisan reform during the '90s, nearly 1 in 7 children were supported by the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.

https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Expanding-Work-Requirements-in-Non-Cash-Welfare-Programs.pdf

"Between 1996 and 2000, TANF receipt by single mothers fell by 53 percent, their employment rate increased by 10 percent, and their poverty rate fell by 20 percent."

Did Welfare Reform Increase Employment and Reduce Poverty? - Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

For 60 years, AFDC endured as the country’s best-known cash assistance program for the poor, until Congress replaced it in 1997 with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. In a dramatic departure, the new welfare law introduced time limits and work requirements with the...

inequality.stanford.edu

This study confirms the council's findings. They also found after programs included work expectations, child outcomes improved.

 

[Lucy01]

Give poor people money so they will vote dimocrat!

 

[larsIU]

Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means (Green Book) - Section 8. Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Related Programs (Title IV-A)

www.govinfo.gov

Before bipartisan reform during the '90s, nearly 1 in 7 children were supported by the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.

https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Expanding-Work-Requirements-in-Non-Cash-Welfare-Programs.pdf

"Between 1996 and 2000, TANF receipt by single mothers fell by 53 percent, their employment rate increased by 10 percent, and their poverty rate fell by 20 percent."

Did Welfare Reform Increase Employment and Reduce Poverty? - Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

For 60 years, AFDC endured as the country’s best-known cash assistance program for the poor, until Congress replaced it in 1997 with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. In a dramatic departure, the new welfare law introduced time limits and work requirements with the...

inequality.stanford.edu

This study confirms the council's findings. They also found after programs included work expectations, child outcomes improved.

So bipartisanship is good for health outcomes. Maybe that’s how we promote it. As a healthcare issue.