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Meals or wheels? In latest attack on the poor, Alabama Republican tells food stamp recipients: If you want to eat, give up your car
Even though they need to drive to work, Alabama food stamp recipients might have to sacrifice their cars
For today’s reminder that however nasty and mean-spirited the Republican presidential candidates can get, there are plenty of state level Republicans who can equal or best them: In Alabama, Republican state Senator Arthur Orr is trying to pass a bill that would force low income people to choose between being able to eat or being able to get a job.
To be clear, the bill doesn’t expressly forbid you from seeking work while you’re drawing assistance like food stamps. Instead, the bill would change the way food stamp eligibility is calculated, counting your car as a financial asset — like a savings account — and requiring you to sell it before you’re allowed to get assistance. The result, for huge numbers of low income people who have little to no access to public transportation — and this is Alabama, so that means a whole bunch of them — is that they won’t have any ability to either look for work or to get to their job if they are lucky enough to find one.
Orr denies that he’s trying to keep people from looking for work, of course. On the contrary, his public statements are riffs on right wing myth that people rely on assistance because they’re too lazy to work. “85 percent are employed,” Orr said. “You make it sound like it’s an impossibility to find a job.”
But it doesn’t matter if unemployment is high or low if a person who wants a job can’t get to it. Which, for huge numbers of Americans, especially in places like Alabama, means driving a car.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/21/mea...ipients_if_you_want_to_eat_give_up_your_car/?
Meals or wheels? In latest attack on the poor, Alabama Republican tells food stamp recipients: If you want to eat, give up your car
Even though they need to drive to work, Alabama food stamp recipients might have to sacrifice their cars
For today’s reminder that however nasty and mean-spirited the Republican presidential candidates can get, there are plenty of state level Republicans who can equal or best them: In Alabama, Republican state Senator Arthur Orr is trying to pass a bill that would force low income people to choose between being able to eat or being able to get a job.
To be clear, the bill doesn’t expressly forbid you from seeking work while you’re drawing assistance like food stamps. Instead, the bill would change the way food stamp eligibility is calculated, counting your car as a financial asset — like a savings account — and requiring you to sell it before you’re allowed to get assistance. The result, for huge numbers of low income people who have little to no access to public transportation — and this is Alabama, so that means a whole bunch of them — is that they won’t have any ability to either look for work or to get to their job if they are lucky enough to find one.
Orr denies that he’s trying to keep people from looking for work, of course. On the contrary, his public statements are riffs on right wing myth that people rely on assistance because they’re too lazy to work. “85 percent are employed,” Orr said. “You make it sound like it’s an impossibility to find a job.”
But it doesn’t matter if unemployment is high or low if a person who wants a job can’t get to it. Which, for huge numbers of Americans, especially in places like Alabama, means driving a car.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/21/mea...ipients_if_you_want_to_eat_give_up_your_car/?
