Republican candidate Jeff Johnson says if he’s elected governor, all able-bodied adults receiving welfare would have to actively seek work, get training or actually be working. Johnson says, “We have a work requirement… for certain programs, but not all of them, and there are questions about how well they are actually enforced. It’s kind of spotty, depending upon where you are in the state.”
Johnson says some of Minnesota’s tax laws and even some welfare regulations financially penalize people with children if they get married — and Johnson says as governor he’d work to change that.