11. Comprehensive state welfare also induces dependency, reduces incentives to work, and blunts initiative and enterprise. 12. State welfare, it is claimed, undermines both kinds of obligation. 13. The most important benefits were adequate job provision, regular pay rises and state welfare services. 14. Although the final version of the new state welfare law is far from settled, both Democrats and Republicans support a two-year time limit for Home Relief. 15. And they are subject to financial penalties if they cut state welfare spending below the levels specified by Congress. 16. At the time, state welfare officials envisioned what they described as a seamless transition from federal to state benefits. 17. Block grants are also bad policy because they would provide no additional federal relief when recession hits and state welfare rolls soar. 18. Boyfriend in the home, drug and alcohol use, domestic violence, other children abused and earlier hot-line calls to state welfare agencies. 19. Also, many states have encouraged people to move from state welfare programs to Supplemental Security Income, so the federal government would pay more of the costs. 20. But among the Hasidim, it does not seem to be as well known as the state welfare program that aids low-income families and childless adults, Home Relief. |
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