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Article: Bush wants tough new work-welfare rules, spend $300 million to promote marriage.(Brief Article)
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- Community Action
- Article date:
- March 18, 2002
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush is proposing a tough new set of work requirements for welfare recipients and $300 million to promote marriage, including $135 million for abstinence education.
The plan will require that 70 per cent of all welfare recipients in a state be working by 2007 even though the typical state currently has only 30 per cent of its caseload working,
In addition:
* recipients will be required to spend 40 hours a week working,
* two of those days may be used for education or training,
* people who need short-term, intensive help will be allowed three months of full-time drug rehabilitation or job ...