Sec. 518. Policy statement on welfare reform and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program work requirements
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The House finds the following: Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP)has grown from 17 million Americans in 2001 to 44 million in 2016. The work support role of SNAP has declined, and the program increasingly serves as a replacement to work. Work requirements were key to the success of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act ( Public Law 104–193 ), which led to a two-thirds reduction in welfare caseloads, a reduction in child poverty, and an increase in work participation. The successful 1996 welfare reform law provides a model for improving work requirements in other anti-poverty programs. It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that— the welfare system should reward work, provide tools to escape poverty, and expect work-capable adults to work or prepare for work in exchange for welfare benefits; and SNAP should be reformed to improve work requirements to help more people escape poverty and move up the economic ladder.
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Policy statement on welfare reform and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program work requirements
Pub. L.Pub. L. 104-193
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