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LiberalArkie

(16,997 posts) Tue Jan 28, 2025, 03:10 PM Tuesday

Arkansas governor seeks work requirement for Medicaid expansion recipients

Updated: 2:06 PM CST January 28, 2025

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is asking the Trump administration to approve a waiver that allows Arkansas to impose a work requirement for "able-bodied, working-age" recipients of the Medicaid expansion program ARHOME.

Sanders addressed the letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President Donald Trump's nominee for health secretary and has yet to be confirmed.

"Our country cannot unleash unprecedented prosperity if able-bodied, childless adults sit on the sidelines," Sanders said in the letter. "And we won't slash our deficit if our welfare programs pay people to stay on the sidelines."

Sanders explained that she believes the new waiver, known as Pathway to Prosperity, will reduce what she referred to as "administrative hurdles." She claimed it would also reduce issues that Medicaid expansion recipients encounter while allowing the state to still utilize Medicaid as a safety net instead of what she calls a "poverty trap."

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Arkansas governor seeks work requirement for Medicaid expansion recipients (Original Post) LiberalArkie Tuesday OP

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? jls4561 Tuesday #1

We are back to hearing about welfare queens again Klarkashton Tuesday #2

At least the Arkansas labor law will allow the little kids to work to pay for school lunch LiberalArkie Tuesday #3

Id like proof that maga politician whoever it was Klarkashton Tuesday #4

Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs a law that makes it easier to employ children LiberalArkie Tuesday #5

jls4561

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1. Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 03:21 PM

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May Sarah Scrooge Huckabee be visited by a Spirit this very night. I doubt White Boy Jesus will show up.

Klarkashton

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2. We are back to hearing about welfare queens again

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 03:50 PM

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The nemesis of the rich.

LiberalArkie

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3. At least the Arkansas labor law will allow the little kids to work to pay for school lunch

Reply to Klarkashton (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:02 PM

Tuesday

Klarkashton

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4. Id like proof that maga politician whoever it was

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:05 PM

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Actually did any of that shit.himself. it's really easy to lie about that stuff.
Picked berrys my ass.

LiberalArkie

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5. Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs a law that makes it easier to employ children

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Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:25 PM

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MARCH 10, 202312:07 PM ET

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law this week rolling back requirements that the state verify the ages of workers under 16 and provide them with work certificates permitting them to work.

Effectively, the new law signed by the Republican governor applies to those who are 14 and 15 years old because in most cases Arkansas businesses can't employ those under 14.

Under the Youth Hiring Act of 2023, children under 16 don't have to get the Division of Labor's permission to be employed. The state also no longer has to verify the age of those under 16 before they take a job. The law doesn't change the hours or kinds of jobs kids can work.

"The Governor believes protecting kids is most important, but this permit was an arbitrary burden on parents to get permission from the government for their child to get a job," Sanders' communications director Alexa Henning said in a statement to NPR. "All child labor laws that actually protect children still apply and we expect businesses to comply just as they are required to do now."

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