{"id":72595,"date":"2017-06-06T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72595"},"modified":"2017-06-06T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T19:30:32","slug":"democrat-voters-reject-work-requirements-for-food-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72595","title":{"rendered":"Democrat voters reject work requirements for food stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually that\u2019s not what the article says but we know instinctively that Ol\u2019 Poe is right with his title. AL.com, an Alabama website, is reporting that when authorities reinstated work requirements for able-bodied persons to receive food stamps, the number of recipients fell dramatically. From AL.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

During the economic downturn of 2011-2013, several states – including Alabama – waived the SNAP work requirements in response to high unemployment. It was reinstituted for 54 counties on Jan. 1, 2016 and for the remaining 13 on Jan. 1, 2017. As of April 2017, the highest jobless rate among the 13 previously excluded counties was in Wilcox County, which reported a state-high unemployment rate of 11.7 percent, down more than 11 percentage points from the county’s jobless rate for the same month of 2011.<\/p>\n

Ending the exemption has dramatically cut the number of SNAP recipients in the counties.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Statewide, the number of able-bodied adults receiving food stamps has fallen by almost 35,000 people since Jan. 1, 2016<\/a>. Each recipient receives about $126 a month in benefits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do the math: That\u2019s almost $4.5 million a month statewide the taxpayers were paying to feed people who apparently didn\u2019t want to eat badly enough to meet the minimal work requirements; yep, more than $50 million a year to keep all those Alabamans voting Democrat as Lyndon Johnson boasted fifty years earlier. He may not have known how to fight communists but he sure knew his Democrat constituents it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually that\u2019s not what the article says but we know instinctively that Ol\u2019 Poe is right … Democrat voters reject work requirements for food stamps<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}