Overhaul of welfare program proposed
To preserve benefits for 380,000 CalWORKS welfare recipients in Los Angeles County, Chief Executive Officer Bill Fujioka on Monday proposed a radical overhaul of the welfare-to-work system that would drop requirements that low-income parents of young children have jobs.Troy Anderson in the Daily News.
The proposal would save the state about $200 million by reducing the need to provide expensive child care services to parents.
Fujioka, who is expected to make a presentation on the matter to the Board of Supervisors today, recommended in the report that CalWORKS parents with a child under 2, or at least two children under 6 years old, should be exempt from the requirement to participate in welfare-to-work activities.
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Los Angeles Daily News City Hall reporter Rick Orlov writes about politics on the local, state and national stage.
Maybe these uneducated people should not have kids in the first place. It sounds to me like there are a lot of what we call anchor babies being born, for the rest of us to support. Welfare should not pay 1 dime more to support more than one child born to a welfare mother. If your stupid enough to have more than one child while collecting welfare TOUGH LUCK. We voters voted overwhelmingly No to all this kind of government sponsored insanity.