Jamelle Bouie: 'Work requirements don’t work, but Republicans still want them, so much so that they threatened to crash the global economy to get them. Why? The obvious answer is [they] are an effective way to cut programs without actually cutting them.'
“Stable employment among recipients subject to work requirements proved the exception, not the norm,” according to a 2016 review of the evidence on work requirements for safety-net programs by the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “The large majority of individuals subject to work requirements remained poor, and some became poorer.”
Does any of this save money? Not really. It cost states tens of millions of dollars to institute work requirements. The administration of Arkansas’ work program for Medicaid, for example, cost close to $26 million.
Now, McCarthy obviously misspoke when he said “child”; he clearly meant an adult. But the rhetorical error is less important than what his image of a welfare recipient says about his view of the role of government. The nonworker, in his imagination, is simply a layabout who would work if he didn’t have the dole.
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