No one who is disabled, no one who lives in an area with high unemployment. And yes, I realize that there are some hard to serve populations that fall out of those buckets. And that's why Existing law provides flexibility to states to select 12% of their caseloads to give them additional flexibility. Because yes, we want to help people who are trying to help themselves. Work is not punishment. Work is opportunity. There is no pathway out of poverty that doesn't include some mixture of work, education and training. (01:51–02:00)
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Asserts that states have flexibility to manage 12% of their caseloads under existing law.
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