This incentive should be removed. Although the migration of the poor to our urban centers is in the tradition of the search for new frontiers. a homestead. a new opportunity. the conditions of modern industrial society do not favor this migration. The underskilled and undereducated migrant from a rural area finds that he does not have the talents demanded in the urban job market. He is forced to work in the marginal areas of the employment market where wages are lowtoo low to keep him and his family alive in a highcostofliving areaand where unemployment first makes itself felt. It is no surprise. then. that this migrant winds up on the wel fare roles. The bill that I have cosponsored revises the welfare system to halt this migration. By providing a national minimum standard of welfare. welfare payments will be removed as an artificial inducement to move.
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Underskilled and undereducated migrants from rural areas are unable to find jobs and end up on welfare.