Mark Warner on Welfare & Poverty Democratic VA Governor

Expand enterprise zones

Housing vouchers & tax incentives against homelessness

Supports the following principles regarding the US welfare system.
• Provide tax incentives for companies to hire and train homeless people who want to work.
• Require that unwed teenage mothers live with a parent or guardian and attend school to receive benefits.
• Provide rent or housing supplement vouchers for low-income families.
• Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to supplement the cost of an apartment.

Require work to receive welfare benefits

Supports the following principles regarding the US welfare system.
• Provide child care services to welfare recipients who work or attend school.
• Impose a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are able to work.
• Require welfare recipients to accept some form of government-sponsored job after two years if unemployed in the private sector.
• Strengthen child support collection procedures and increase penalties for parents who do not pay child support.