In response to the growth in food stamp dependence, Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, recently established work requirements on recipients who are without dependents and able-bodied. In Maine, all able-bodied adults without dependents in the food stamp program are now required to take a job, participate in training, or perform community service.
Job openings for lower-skill workers are abundant in Maine, and for those ABAWD recipients who cannot find immediate employment, Maine offers both training and community service slots. But despite vigorous outreach efforts by the government to encourage participation, most childless adult recipients in Maine refused to participate in training or even to perform community service for six hours per week. When ABAWD recipients refused to participate, their food stamp benefits ceased.
In the first three months after Maine’s work policy went into effect, its caseload of able-bodied adults without dependents plummeted by 80 percent, falling from 13,332 recipients in Dec. 2014 to 2,678 in March 2015.
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Don’t tell Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. They want us to believe Socialism is the future. You either have faith in the state or God. Faith in the state ALWAYS leads to chains.
David DeGerolamo
LePage is the best thing that’s happened to this state since potato chips and fiddleheads…
What is a fiddlehead?
They taste like a cross between broccoli and a mild cabbage. Typically cooked with a little salt pork and served with salt, pepper and butter as a side dish up here in the north of Maine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern
That is what came up on google when I searched. I just wanted to make sure. I might have to try and grow some of them.