"Department of Poor People", I assume???
I'm sick of all the handouts. I think that no one should be eligible for a student loan if they don't have a full time job. How the are these people ever going to learn to stand on their own two feet if we keep loaning then $75,000 at 6.8% with no strings attached?
I hope my sarcasm was evident. I was more commenting on how conservatives have a theory that people who need assistance of any kind should have to work to get it. They've been trying it for years. Here is MI, which is a state that is getting stupider by the year, they recently put in a welfare work requirement that specifically exempts people from rural areas (not sure why a bunch of conservatives would make a work requirement for urban but not rural poor people--real head scratcher). Combining of Labor and Education seems like a step toward fulfilling work requirements for everything.
You’re actually quite close in your guess, per The NY Times:The plan, which will most likely face significant opposition in Congress from Democrats and some Republicans, includes relocating many social safety net programs into a new megadepartment, which would replace the Department of Health and Human Services and possibly include the word “welfare” in its title.