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After years of debate, California Governor Jerry Brown has finally given in to liberal legislators and advocates of the poor by eliminating a California welfare rule that many believe inordinately targets poor mothers of color. The rule goes by many namesthe Welfare Queen rule, the family cap, and formally in California as the Maximum Family Grant Policyand prevents families from receiving more benefits if they have additional children while receiving benefits.
Californias revocation of the policy is projected to cost the state a projected $220 million each year, and will eventually be funded by an account for inflationary increases to welfare benefits. With Browns decision, California joins a list of seven other states to repeal the rule, which once existed in some form or another in nearly half of U.S. states.
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Reagan ran a campaign largely based on the anecdotal evidence of a few criminals who defrauded the U.S. welfare system, with the conclusion that welfare fraud was a pervasive plague in the U.S. that could only be eliminated by cracking down on the welfare stat
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Welfare queen rules emerged in the early 1990s as a solution, with the belief that if women were to not receive additional benefits for additional children, that they would stop having additional children. Not only have studies found that the rules have no distinguishable impact on birth rates among mothers who receive benefits and are subject to a family cap, but the rules have been criticized as degrading and dehumanizing to poor mothers.
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http://lawstreetmedia.com/news/fall-welfare-queen-california/
One more Reagan-era piece of crap that is falling by the way side
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)How in the world can withholding benefits from the child simply because it was born after the family was on welfare be fair or legal?
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... if you ask me. How would a law like that stop a man from impregnating a woman? Like the woman is solely responsible for the sex act and solely responsible for becoming pregnant. Start holding the fathers of the "welfare queen's extra children" responsible.
djean111
(14,255 posts)And would double down on it, if elected, IMO.
A reason I would not want to be here - I would likely would be seeing "Democrats" championing safety net cuts, because Hillary.