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Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

In January 2018, the Trump administration announced that it would allow U.S. states to require able-bodied adults to work in order to be eligible for Medicaid. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for low-income Americans. Each state determines its own requirements for Medicaid eligibility. In most states children from low-income households, pregnant women and low-income seniors are covered. Medicaid also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare, like nursing home care and personal care services. The Trump administration said Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin had requested approval to test programs including job training, job search, education, volunteer activities and caregiving.

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Response rates from 425 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voters.

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6%
Yes
69%
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2%
Yes, research shows people who are employed are healthier than those who are unemployed
14%
No, the vast majority of people who receive Medicaid are disabled
1%
Yes, this will help States reduce Medicaid costs
7%
No, it is hard to apply for a job if you are sick

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 @8D7X8VB from Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

No, abolish Medicaid in favor of Universal Income and allow folks to spend money where they need it.

 @9BXWFLF from Mississippi  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, unless you're elderly or disabled

 @8QMXFJB from California  answered…4yrs4Y

no, abolish medicaid

 @9DC2XS5 from Kansas  answered…2yrs2Y

no but be in the process of looking for a job

 @92NY4BN from Texas  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, unless you're elderly or disabled.

 @8GRQJ85 from Illinois  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes unless you’re elderly or disabled

 @8DQSTTF from Kansas  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but not the elderly or disabled

 @8GD5VXM from Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes as long as they are not elderly or disabled

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Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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