Reportedly the current Federal Government wants to restrict State Governments from requesting relaxed food-stamp rules where unemployment is more than 20 percent of the national unemployment rate. See Danielle Paquette and Jeff Stein, Trump Administration Aims to Toughen Work Requirements For Food Stamp Recipients, Washington Post Online Thursday, December 20, 2018.
The current Federal Government is proposing a change that would restrain the States from asking for relief unless "unemployment is above 7 percent."
Is this the current Federal Government's back-door way of telling us how good we have it with a reported unemployment rate of 3.7 percent -- regardless of the fact that many people are "employed" part-time and in low-paying jobs?
So, by using the so-called unemployment rate as a benchmark for food stamps, the current Federal Government certainly seems to be saying, then, that a job is a job is a job?
Or to borrow from Shakespeare's observation that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," is the current Federal Government seriously telling us this: A job that pays any low wage will count as much as a job paying any high wage -- for purposes of unemployment statistics and receiving food stamps, anyway?
Seriously?
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