The main view of this paper will be discussing the opposition of the green party towards churches providing welfare services, and the Republican party’s support of these faith based groups to provide welfare reform.
The Green party on Welfare reform calls for a graduated supplemental income, or negative income tax that would maintain all individual adult incomes above the poverty level, regardless of employment or marital status. ...
At the June 2000 National Convention, the Green Party Platform announced their view on workfare being assimilated to slave labor, by forcing welfare recipients to accept jobs that pay wages below a livable income (“a living wage”) drives wages down and exploits workers for private profit at public expense. The idea of workfare is strongly rejected by the green party, referring to it as slave labor which is an interestingly similar version of the Elizabethan poor law where the able bodied poor; individuals who were given "low grade" employment and punished if they refused to work.
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