Why Work Requirements Don’t Work - The Atlantic

House Republicans have voted to make benefits even more conditional. All that can achieve is turning down legitimately eligible recipients.

The so-called Limit, Save, Grow Act , which House Republicans passed late on Wednesday, will never become law, because its combination of a small increase in the debt limit and a freeze on much government spending has no chance of making it through the Senate. The bill is nevertheless a statement about conservative priorities—among the most important of which, the debate over the bill suggests, is putting in place work requirements for people who get government benefits. In fact, the way Republican lawmakers speak about the issue, you’d be forgiven for thinking that work requirements were esse

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