When Maine Required Childless Adults to Work to Get Food Stamps, Guess What Happened

We’ve all heard the stories of able bodied people, hanging out doing nothing but surfing the internet while taking food stamps from the federal government.  Tax payers spent $1 trillion on food stamps LAST YEAR.

The Governor of Main, Paul LePage, had an interesting idea.  He decided to require that people who didn’t have kids and COULD work, to actually get jobs, do community service, or train for a job before getting the handout.

Guess what?  “… Despite vigorous outreach efforts by the government to encourage participation, most childless adult recipients in Maine refused to participate in training or even to perform community service for six hours per week.”

That meant that their food stamps stopped coming.

CNS reports, “In the first three months after Maine’s work policy went into effect, its caseload of able-bodied adults without dependents plummeted by 80 percent, falling from 13,332 recipients in Dec. 2014 to 2,678 in March 2015.”

What does this tell you about the actual NEED of the recipients?

Bravo to Gov. LePage on this new requirement.

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