Welfare reform should encourage partnerships with faith based institutions, community, and business organizations to assist individuals in need. We encourage welfare reform in the following areas:
- Denying benefits to individuals who cannot prove citizenship;
- Welfare reforms should require recipients to work, learn, and train;
- Reforms should require recipients to remain substance-abuse free in exchange for temporary benefits not exceeding two years;
- Recipients should be required to submit to random drug testing in order to receive benefits;
- Welfare cards should be confined to food and vital essentials, and be issued with a photo of the approved user; and
- Prisoners should be removed from welfare rolls.