Getting People from Welfare to Work

Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and governor of South Carolina, spoke about how she moved people in South Carolina from welfare to work. She believed that the people on welfare didn’t want to be on welfare. She asked businesses to hire a welfare recipient for 10 weeks and train them, and she’d pay them. At the end of 10 weeks, the businesses had to option to hire the people. Haley said thousands of people in the state moved from welfare to work this way.

Empowerment through freedom and personal responsibility, not government dependency, is the answer to poverty. On CURE America, @NikkiHaley shares how she got ppl in S.C. from welfare to work, by simply bringing them together.@WatchNRBTV 7 PM ET: https://t.co/frUAWRzb5u pic.twitter.com/IUnt0eiGfE

— CURE (@CUREpolicy) October 18, 2021