Newsmax: John Bachman- U.S. Representative Jim Jordan: 'Welfare Reform Starts With New White House Leadership'

Source:Newsmax- U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee.

"Rep. Jim Jordan: Welfare Reform Starts With New White House Leadership" 

From Newsmax

As Representative Jim Jordan said himself and told Newsmax, the new costs to public assistance in America has to do with the economy. The Great Recession started 4 years ago, we're still at 8% unemployment right now and around 20% poverty in this country. It's not like President Obama and Congress decided to increase the budgets on public welfare and are throwing money at these problems. It's that we have more people unemployed, more people with low-income, low-skilled jobs, and as a result more people who are eligible for public assistance, than we did even 5-6 years ago, or 10-15 years ago.

I also agree with Representative Jordan on how to address these issues. We obviously need a better economy, more people not just working, but working in jobs that makes them economically independent of public assistance. 

But for people who are eligible for public assistance, especially low-skilled adults with kids on those programs, there needs to be work and educational requirements for them so they can start working, but as they are working, they are getting the skills that they need to get themselves a good job and get off of public assistance. While they don't lose their public financial assistance that they need to live, while they're working their low-income jobs and in school to get the skills that they need to get themselves a good job and be financially independent.