Democrats won’t run the House until January, but you wouldn’t know it from the lame-duck session of Congress. The biggest disappointment in a field of failures is that the GOP looks poised to abandon work incentives in welfare. House and Senate conferees are finishing a five-year farm bill, and avert your eyes. The original House bill includes a 20 hours-a-week work requirement for able-bodied adults who aren’t caring for young children as a precondition of receiving food stamps.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 09, 2018 23:37 UTC