A Charge To Keep: on Welfare & Poverty

Work and responsibility to replace welfare

I proposed two sweeping welfare reform packages, to:
• place time limits on welfare benefits;
• require able-bodied welfare recipients to get a job, attend school, or train for work;
• require participating mothers to identify the fathers of their children so they could contribute to their support;
• and emphasize personal responsibility by requiring welfare recipients to sign an independence contract pledging to stay drug-free and keep their kids immunized and in school.

Too much government fosters dependency

Religious charities deserve government support