Reply #227: I do agree about education.

[Lyric]

In fact, I firmly believe that attending a venue of higher education should count toward the work requirement for programs like TANF and Food Stamps. I also believe that the government should create a student loan program for welfare recipients that has a much lower interest rate and a much more managed schedule of repayment; $100 a month, regardless of income, for example. That way the people who have used education to leave poverty will have more resources to *stay* out of poverty. Coming from poverty means that they're already at-risk; I see nothing but good in creating a special program that helps reduce the risk of falling back into poverty.

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