Jim Bunning on Welfare & Poverty Republican Jr Senator (KY)

Supports welfare-to-work & block grants

Supports the following principles concerning welfare:
• Provide tax incentives for companies to hire and train homeless people who want to work.
• Continue to give states and local governments responsibility for welfare programs through block grants.
• Maintain current welfare-to-work requirements in order for states to qualify for block grants.
• Require that unwed teenage mothers live with a parent or guardian (if possible) and attend school to receive benefits.

Limit welfare to 2 years & cut welfare spending.

[As part of the Contract with America, within 100 days we pledge to bring to the House Floor the following bill]:

The Personal Responsibility Act:
Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility.