Welfare Cuts for Bad Students' Families?
January 31, 2013
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as posted by the channel"Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) has proposed a bill that would cut welfare benefits by 30 percent to families whose children fail to make "satisfactory academic progress" in school.
Campfield claims that penalizing families based on their children's grades is a step toward "breaking the cycle of poverty," reports KnoxNews.com."*
A proposed bill in Tennessee would cut welfare benefits to families with children who aren't making good grades in school. Would this idea provide incentive to achieve, or is it degrading and misdirected? Cenk Uygur debates with Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson.
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