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Commissioner Park highlights inadequate funding for work requirement implementation
0:35:22
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Commissioner Park emphasizes the significant disparity between the funding required for effective work requirement programs and the amount proposed by Congress. She explains that the proposed federal funding is inadequate to create the necessary infrastructure for successful implementation.
- Comparison of NYC's $51 million annual spending on career services programs to the proposed $100 million national funding for Medicaid work requirements
- Discussion of the moral implications of requiring work for basic supports like food and healthcare
- Concern about costs being pushed down from federal to state and potentially to local levels
Molly Wasow Park
0:35:22
The House has proposed $100,000,000 nationally to implement work requirements for Medicaid.
0:35:29
So in order to actually have a serious conversation about what low income households need to grow economically, we are in the wrong order of magnitude when we're talking about work requirements.
0:35:40
So setting aside the moral aspects of looking for people to work for basic supports like food and healthcare.
0:35:52
We don't have the infrastructure, and Congress is not contemplating the infrastructure to make this a realistic option.
0:35:58
So this is something that we're incredibly concerned about.
0:36:01
And then as costs are pushed down to the state we would expect that to get pushed down to the local level as well.
0:36:09
We don't have any of the details obviously.
0:36:12
So it's premature for me to talk about numbers, I think we can expect that to happen.