13-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
The GOP's Work for Welfare Advance
The House's big, beautiful budget bill is bigger than it is beautiful, so it's worth noting the better parts of the draft. The House Agriculture Committee is moving on a modest welfare reform in food stamps that will resuscitate the program's connection with work. Americans who manage to sift through the media distortions will approve.
By one think-tank estimate, nearly 13 million able-bodied adults were on food stamps in 2022, and the benefit covers some 12% of the U.S. population. People are supposed to work as a condition of benefits, but millions don't. Live in California? The Biden Administration in January waived the program's work requirement in the entire state for two years. The House bill cracks down on these waiver abuses.
