{"id":16521,"date":"2012-11-27T06:42:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T11:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16521"},"modified":"2012-11-27T06:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T11:42:26","slug":"welfare-spending-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16521","title":{"rendered":"Welfare Spending In America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Heritage Foundation<\/a> posted the following chart in October in an article about Paul Ryan<\/a>‘s plan to reform welfare:<\/p>\n

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The article reports:<\/p>\n

Tragically, this massive welfare state has been a driver of dependency. Today, 100 million Americans<\/a>\u2014roughly one-third of the U.S. population<\/a>\u2014receive aid from a government welfare program<\/a> (not including Social Security<\/a>, Medicare<\/a>, or unemployment insurance<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Ryan noted, in the 1990s Congress passed the historic welfare reform law, inserting work requirements into the largest federal cash assistance<\/a> program. This was a huge success.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e saw welfare enrollment drop dramatically, as millions of our fellow citizens gained new lives of independence,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cWe saw child poverty rates fall over 20 percent in four years\u2014and we saw employment for single mothers rise.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

But these reforms are at risk. In July of this year, the Obama Administration<\/a> announced it would remove work requirements from welfare reform\u2014the very element that made the law such a success.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At what point will this kind of institutionalized dependency result in the loss of America as we know it?<\/p>\n

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The Heritage Foundation posted the following chart in October in an article about Paul Ryan‘s plan to reform welfare: The article reports: Tragically, this massive welfare state has been a driver of dependency. Today, 100 million Americans\u2014roughly one-third of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1155,1843,1381,135,614,170,285,1484],"class_list":["post-16521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-administration-of-federal-assistance-in-the-united-states","tag-heritage-foundation","tag-medicare","tag-obama-administration","tag-paul-ryan","tag-social-security","tag-united-states","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16524,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16521\/revisions\/16524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}