article_snippet.sent: The proposal would also give the force of state law to some of brownback's policies, including one that requires 'temporary cash assistance' recipients to hold down jobs, look for work or enroll in job training programs.
article_snippet.sent: The Brownback administration has already presided over a 60 per cent drop in the number of Kansans enrolled in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, known as TANF, during Brownback first term in office.
article_snippet.sent: The clash of statistics has raised questions about whether the state has actually been moving people off of TANF and into jobs.
article_snippet.sent: Until Brownback became governor, welfare enrollees could buy liquor with welfare enrollees benefit debit cards, but now Brownback became governor policy is likely to become a law that future pols will find it hard to undo . '
article_snippet.sent: But Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly countered in the Capital-Journal that 'the Associated Press pat the Associated Press on the back that the Associated Press TANF rolls have gone down exponentially and the Associated Press say our TANF rolls’s because all those people are now working,' but 'the Associated Press do
article_snippet.sent: and I’m guessing our TANF rolls not the truth.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Democrats say it's mean-spirited and will make welfare enrollees think welfare enrollees're 'less' valuable 'than other people'
  Brownback's administration has shrunk the TANF rolls by 60 per cent since 2011; the law would also force recipients to try to find work .