Plan won't gut welfare reform
"Ad receives Pants on Fire award from ad groups"
By Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune Tuesday August 14, 2012 5:20 AM
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Whose side is he on? Mitt Romney’s assault against President Barack Obama’s welfare-reform policy sounds good, except that it gets in the way of putting welfare recipients to work.
... Yet, Obama’s waivers might well have been greeted as sound conservative policy, returning power to the innovative laboratory of the states, if they had come from a Republican president. ...
... Team Romney insists that the new Obama policy opens the door to a weakening of work requirements because it allows states to give a higher priority to the type of work recipients take than to their participation rate. “If I am president,” Romney said in Elk Grove Village, Ill., last week, “ I will put work back in welfare.” But the Obama policy explicitly states that waivers will be granted only to proposals that will increase the percentages of cases to be moved off welfare rolls. ...
... At least five governors, including Republicans Gary Herbert of Utah and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, have been seeking such regulatory relief for years, the White House pointed out. In return, the directive offers states a new level of flexibility and breathing room for innovation, something that Republicans and conservatives usually favor. ...
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