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TopicWelfare
ContentWelfare should be given with certain stipulations. First, the applicant must submit to random drug testing. They should be immediately tested and entered into an employment database at express personell, mystaff, or another such staffing agency. Their handicaps should be taken into consideration during job selection, but thanks to the internet, many jobs can be performed completely in a low stress, sitting position. Just like unemployment applicants, they should be required to submit a certain number of job applications per month, to show their intent to return to the workforce. The applicant should be required to attend job skills classes, seminars, or other basic job training, and counseling sessions if their condition includes psychological problems. After the term of one year, the applicant should face a committee, which will look over their progress and decide whether or not to continue welfare payments. If the applicant is employed, the welfare payments should be heavily reduced, or stopped altogether. If the comitte feels that no progress is being made toward returning to the workforce, then the following should be carried out: The applicant's children should be relocated. If the applicant is not able to support themselves, what makes the state see them as fit to raise children? If the applicant fails a drug test, their children should be temporarily relocated and the applicant forced to attend drug classes, until which time they can test clean, and thus regain their children. The applicant's driver's license should be suspended and their non-essential items of value (televisions, games, electronics) repossessed to help cover the cost of the state's monetary support. Potentially, their house should be repossessed and the money used to place them in a smaller, low-cost domicile that they can more readily afford, while the extra money from teh sale also goes to help cover the costs by the state. As it is, is there any incentive to a welfar applicant returning to the workforce?
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