Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders added later that unemployed Americans could possibly assume DACA recipients' jobs.
"The best way to reduce spending in the program is to continue improving the economy, connect recipients with job training and job placement assistance, and raise the minimum wage so working families can afford to make ends meet".
The $140 million-a-year program offered two-year subsidies of about $1,000 a month, but only if recipients received job training or worked.
"This" consists of the Robert Treat Academy, which is to graduate its first class of eighth graders this spring; the Newark Business Training Institute, which helps welfare recipients obtain job skills; the North Ward Child Development Center, which serves 520 children; and Casa Israel, which provides medical services to the indigent.
After that came the Congressional Budget Office report that described the way Obamacare would cause labor supply to shrink from the labor markets, as recipients escaped "job lock," or took advantage of the Obamacare subsidies to reduce their hours or retire.
In Minnesota, welfare workers went out of their way to emphasize that if welfare recipients took jobs, even low-wage jobs, they would be financially better off than if they stayed on welfare.
Those programs -- intended to help welfare recipients land jobs and keep them -- range from job placement and child care to intensified case management.
The investigators said they were surprised by the size of the changes they found in the last few years: *The proportion of welfare recipients with jobs rose by 35percentt, and many of the jobs provided stable full-time work.
New York City's Back to Work program contributed to the placement of more than 75,000 welfare recipients into jobs in 2010 and is on track to meet Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's goal of 85,000 job placements in 2011.
