Kronick urges welfare restoration. Dec. 1992

 


Citing on-coming winter and lack of work, Assemblyman David C. Kronick (D-32) said he would support efforts to restore full general assistance funding for employable recipients.

"This is not the time to be cutting general assistance for the employable, " said Kronick. "It might make sense for some if there were jobs available, but New Jersey is in the midst of a job shortage."

 The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Wayne Bryant (D-Camden), calls for the restoration of $10 million cut from the 1993 fiscal year.

 Under the budget presented before the assembly for 1993, employable adults who receive monthly $140 general assistance will no longer be eligible beyond a six-month period. Those on welfare before July 1st would lost benefits on Jan.1 if funding is not restored.

"Many of the people who will be affected by this measure are from the lowest economic strata of society," Kronick said. "These people are having trouble putting food on the table as it is. The sudden lapse in general assistance is going to put some of them out on the street during the coldest month of the year."

 Kronick noted recent job unemployment figures showing an average of 9 percent, the highest in over 15 years.

"There are people out there who are borderline homeless," Kronick said. "They are able to sustain themselves by the thinnest of margins, face the lowest paying jobs and are the first to be let go in time of economic cutbacks by employers."

 Kronick said the measure to cut assistance was "a politically contrived and thinly veiled attempt (by the Republicans) at living up to their one penny sales tax roll-back."



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