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Utah Makes Welfare So Hard to Get, Some Feel They Must Join the LDS Church to Get Aid (www.propublica.org)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't have an issue with the fact that the church decides whom they help.

But that the state has so little in the way of social security that they instead have to forward people to a church instead, that's crazy.

3rd world country.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The LDS essentially owns the state of Utah, this issue is by design

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Agreed - working as intended, and it's not just LDS. I'm in FL and churches here have been opposing publicly funded safety nets for my whole life, in favor of voluntary, often church-led, donations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They appear to have set it up that way on purpose.

A single mother of one here is eligible for $399 a month in state assistance, and only if she has a net income of $456 a month or less.

Utah doesn’t do more for those in need in part because a contingent of its lawmakers, the overwhelming majority of whom are Latter-day Saints themselves, assume the church is handling the poverty issue; they also are loath to raise taxes to do the state’s share, a review of Utah’s legislative history demonstrates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

us$10k/year

I doubt there is anywhere in the US where that is an adequate amount to pay for food and shelter. That is monstrous.