LePage admin skims welfare dollars as extreme child poverty surges

[KamaAina]

http://mainebeacon.com/lepage-admin-skims-welfare-dollars-as-extreme-child-poverty-surges/

Bangor Daily News columnist David Farmer is on a roll. After exposing a new attack on Maine’s human rights laws protecting gay, lesbian and transgender Mainers last week, this week he laid bare just how badly Governor Paul LePage and his administration are failing poor children through cuts to public assistance. The state has now amassed a $110 million surplus in federal funds that should have been spent helping families climb out of poverty.

“For the past four years, they’ve been skimming dollars meant to support low-income families who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and allowed this huge surplus to develop.

They’ve also kicked thousands of people off of food assistance, maintained a steady attack on General Assistance, and undermined successful programs that provide training and education for TANF parents so that they have the skills to re-enter the workforce.”

Farmer notes that these cuts and this withholding of funds has occurred while extreme child poverty is skyrocketing.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' with disgust

[mopinko]

2. hope the feds jump in here.

man, the crazy gets deeper every day.

[eShirl]

3. I'd be surprised if they weren't.

[malokvale77]

4. Pretty soon...

they'll be stealing child support, like they do here in Texas. No elected official seems to care.

[tenderfoot]

5. Conservatives are heartless dirtbags...

Not one redeeming human quality.

[SheilaT]

6. What's really pathetic is that so many of these miserable

bastards claim to be Christians.

Isn't there something out there where this guy Jesus said something along the lines of "Whatever you do to the least person, you do to me"? Would they throw the baby Jesus off public assistance?

Probably.