Fourteen other states have adopted this option, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This case could have undermined the Shapiro precedent that the right to get welfare is an important facet of right to travel. This case is critical especially for poor women escaping domestic violence and indicates that the idea of welfare rights may still be possible by relying on the constitution. Now recipients can only get welfare for two years without working. They can only get it for five years in a lifetime.
States can set stricter requirements.
Recipients must sign individual responsibility plans that are focused on moving off welfare for paid employment and recipients can be sanctioned and lose benefits for not adhering to these plans. The emphasis is on going to work as fast as possible. It is new but also old. What happens to families that can not fit into this pressure cooker is the emerging tough issue. Therefore, we can see Political change can be furtive and fleeting, especially on behalf of the powerless.