Mary Mayhew in Forbes Magazine 2016 Candidates

On Welfare & Poverty: Time limits on welfare benefits, to promote employment

For too long the 1996 federal welfare reforms of time limits and work requirements had been ignored--to the detriment of needy families. There is no doubt that the best way out of poverty is a job. This is what led to our enforcement of a 5-year lifetime limit on TANF benefits. I was not surprised that the results of promoting work rather than discouraging it were shown to be dramatic and a stark contrast to the years of allowing people to remain in poverty, dependent on government assistance. Source: Forbes Magazine interview on 2018 Maine Gubernatorial race Jun 1, 2017

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