Clinton Wants to Help Families at the Bottom; Will She Change Her Mind on Welfare Reform?

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7. I'd like to see

Drop time limits.
No work requirement since States tend to turn that into slave labor situations.
Housing stabilization first.
Real bridges/pipelines to work instead of just polishing resumes and practicing interviews for people with serious barriers to employment.
Subsidy for transportation if there is no free transportation in the area.
Direct cash or drug store vouchers for non-food necessities.
Revamping of Section 8 so vouchers aren't attached to particular localities and aren't "Waiting Lists" - instead the people who qualify for them get the vouchers, and they are automatically portable.
No more multi-year SSI application gap that allows thousands of people to die waiting (and often homeless) just so the State can save money in the delay.
Personal social workers for people who are in the system more than 6 months to see what's going on: flexible approach to aid for them.
Understanding that when the system itself takes months and years to get stuff done, then the person on welfare will be in the system for months and years. It's NOT THEIR FAULT.

Also, I'd like a massive educational campaign - as big as the "food plate" - to demolish the myth of the Welfare Queen so neither political party can ever use a poor person's devastated life to score their political points again.