Welfare Reform

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Continue food stamps to help the food industry and grocery stores. That should not be the purpose of food stamps.
Welfare recipients must work 100 hours a week.  That's ridiculous. Seriously? Are people not supposed to have time to sleep, feed the kids and go to church?
Maintain federal funding levels for TANF block grants.  ok.  a big problem with welfare though is that with the various benefits, it can end up being hard for people to get a job or a better job b/c they suddenly lose some of these benefits - so they actually are in a position where they can hardly afford to work. that needs to be fixed.
Allow churches to provide welfare services along with the state. Help is help.  Churches have the ability to serve people in ways the state cannot. Taking funding from the government can compromise that.
As of now provide an annual $16.7 billion in farm subsidies for people making less than $750,000.
Farmers who are anywhere near that successful don't need subsidies. They distort the both the domestic and global market. Farm subsidies should be greatly downsized and reformed - there's a place for conservation and disaster based payments but the rest need to be seriously reconsidered. Meanwhile farm policy should be deregulated so that farmers can grow and sell what they will.  
Turn foreclosed homes into poor houses and homeless shelters. The bank owns a home once it's foreclosed, not the government. Let's try to keep foreclosures from happening so much in the first place.
Allow unemployment benefits to 59 weeks.   ok, jobs are hard to come by.
Two year term limits for welfare recipients.  nah, jobs are hard to come by
Raise minimum wage to $7.85/hour.    jobs are hard to come by, but meh, I guess it wouldn't hurt too much.
Allow churches to register as childcare providers.   of course - I think that's usually allowed, though there might be some silly laws that make it difficult.
Provide school breakfast for low income children.   I think that's generally the case, but sure. no point in trying to educate hungry kids.
$70 million for section 8 housing vouchers.  That would be a drop in the bucket.  Section 8 can be something of a trainwreck and a few more dollars per person wont solve it.