Welfare Reform Wisconsin Style: Get a Job

In a decision with too much common sense, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals based in Milwaukee decided:

Wis. welfare program must help those who cannot find jobs

Participants in Wisconsin's landmark welfare reform program who are ready to enter the workforce but cannot find jobs must be given state-subsidized employment or training, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday...

...The court's ruling means social service agencies will have to do more to find jobs for participants and place those who are unsuccessful into taxpayer-funded employment, said Pat DeLessio, a lawyer for Legal Action of Wisconsin, which represented the women.

Think about it. It helps end poverty.  Assuming the state does not want to increase the welfare rolls, people who want to work will be given an opportunity to work for a living.

As for increasing the welfare rolls,  that is not a problem. The decision does not say "put them on the dole." It clearly says, "provide for job opportunity."  Those offered meaningful work who turn it down, do not get welfare.