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riversedge

(69,722 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:09 PM Dec 2014

Glenn Grothman: Single parents getting 'bribe' to avoid work, marriage

He makes me sick!







http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/todd-milewski/glenn-grothman-single-parents-getting-bribe-to-avoid-work-marriage/article_13356840-78b5-11e4-8a54-c375f6358e8d.html



Glenn Grothman: Single parents getting 'bribe' to avoid work, marriage


November 30, 2014 11:30 am • By Todd D. Milewski | The Capital Times
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Conservative Republican state Sen. Glenn Grothman will succeed the moderate Republican Rep. Tom Petri in Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District.
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U.S. Rep.-elect Glenn Grothman says the government is bribing single parents to stay unemployed and unmarried.

That wording even seemed to catch interviewer Mike Gousha off guard on the Sunday broadcast of the statewide TV news program "UpFront with Mike Gousha."

In his run for Congress, the Republican state senator from Campbellsport said welfare reform would be his top priority in Washington, and in the interview broadcast Sunday, he said educating the public is a first step.

"So your viewers are aware, a single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year in total benefits between the health care and the earned income credit and the FoodShare and the low-income housing and what have you," Grothman said. "And that's after taxes. How many people make $35,000 a year after taxes? Most people don't.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/nyregion/strict-limits-on-welfare-benefits-discourage-marriage-studies-say.html

Strict Limits on Welfare Benefits Discourage Marriage, Studies Say
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: June 3, 2002


For years, work and marriage have been seen as twin pillars of welfare reform. But just as President Bush is seeking welfare legislation with more stringent work requirements and more support for marriage, an unexpected contradiction is emerging. New research findings in two states show that the stricter work requirements of contemporary welfare policy significantly reduce the chances that a single mother will wed.

Though policy makers disagreed in the past about whether old-style welfare was encouraging out-of-wedlock births, neither critics nor champions of the nation's 1996 welfare overhaul contemplated the possibility that replacing welfare with work would discourage marriage. But that is what researchers have found in separate, rigorous studies of welfare programs in Connecticut and Iowa.

Researchers suggest two main reasons. Like middle-class married women whose divorce rates spiked when jobs and rising wages made them more self-reliant, some women who moved from welfare to work may have become less willing to settle for the wrong man, they say. At the same time, strict work requirements and low wages may have left some mothers with less time, energy and income to attract a partner or nourish a relationship.

''Tough love, less romance,'' summarized Bruce Fuller, a social scientist at the University of California and an author of the Connecticut study. He privately discussed similar findings with Thomas M. Fraker, the author of the unpublished Iowa evaluation, which is awaiting state approval. ''If tough-love work policies suppressed marriage at this magnitude nationwide, just under a quarter-million women would not be getting married in any one year,'' Professor Fuller said....

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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
1. How is the earned income credit a "bribe" for not working
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:12 PM
Dec 2014

when you have to work and earn an income to get it? So stupid. Just more of the same "poor people are moochers" garbage.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
8. Another Way to Attack the Program
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:50 PM
Dec 2014

The want to destroy the image of the program so they can either reduce it or destroy the program.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
2. They actually think that "settling for the wrong man" is a good thing?
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:15 PM
Dec 2014

This study is so full of holes that it can't rightfully be called a "study" I would call it bad guesses.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
4. I can think of a third reason why these women aren't marrying -- they've
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:27 PM
Dec 2014

smartened up and refuse to marry a guy who can't hold a job. Just getting married doesn't do a damn thing for a woman on welfare unless the man has a job, and the fact (in the above article) that says that the 'enormous' sum of $35,000 in welfare benefits is paying more than the average job should give these research nimrods some idea of why women aren't getting married to some Joe off the street.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
10. Glenn still hasn't found a woman desperate enough to marry him, so he continues to ....
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:03 PM
Dec 2014

... advocate for their further economic peril.

What a loathesome, rancid blob of santorum Glenn is.

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