The Michigan state senate has passed proposed legislation that would require to work in exchange for Medicaid, housing aid, and food assistance.
If you live in a county where the unemployment exceeds 8.5%, you are exempt from the requirement. This means that poor rural counties would be exempt, but the cities of Detroit and Flint, located in counties with a low suburban unemployment, would be included.
Similar conditions are found in other states that are considering work requirements, including Kentucky, Virginia, and Ohio. In all of these states, the counties that would qualify for the exemptions are overwhelmingly white.
See Emily Badger and Margot Sanger-Katz, “Which Poor People Shouldn’t Have to Work for Aid? New York Times, (May 19, 2018), p. B3.
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