Supports block grants, welfare-to-work, state control

McCain supports the following principles regarding welfare issues:
• Support housing assistance for welfare recipients
• Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to supplement the cost of an apartment
• Continue to give states and local governments responsibility for welfare programs through block grants
• Maintain current welfare-to-work requirements in order for states to qualify for block grants
• Require that unwed teenage mothers live with a parent or guardian (if possible) and attend school to receive benefits
• Restore food stamp programs to legal immigrants
• Transfer homeless housing programs to states through block grants
• Provide continued Medicaid benefits for those welfare recipients who have moved from welfare to work
• Provide federal assistance to low-income job applicants for transportation to jobs at some distance.

Anti-poverty shared by gov’t & faith-based orgs

List unoccupied HUD-owned homes, & give them away

Use tax code to address unemployment & working conditions

McCain supports the following principles concerning employment:
• Provide tax credits for companies that move into areas with high unemployment
• Reduce government regulations to encourage investment
• Establish empowerment zones in areas with high unemployment
• Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time and unpaid leave to attend to their family responsibilities
• Provide tax credits for businesses that provide on-site child care.

More housing assistance; tax breaks against homelessness

McCain supports the following principles regarding poverty and homelessness:
• Provide tax incentives for companies to hire and train homeless people who want to work.
• Increase funds for housing assistance for welfare recipients who need housing to get or keep a job.
• Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to supplement the cost of an apartment.
• Convert government-funded low-income housing projects into private housing, managed and owned by the residents.

Pro-block grants; pro-welfare-to-work

McCain supports the following principles regarding poverty and welfare:
• Continue to give states and local governments responsibility for welfare programs through block grants.
• Maintain current welfare-to-work requirements in order for states to qualify for block grants.
• Require that unwed teenage mothers live with a parent or guardian (if possible) and attend school to receive benefits.

Voted YES on allowing state welfare waivers.