There are fundamental problems with the American welfare system. First, countless people are stuck in the welfare system living with the same “ruts of dependency and poverty”, yet the goal of welfare was supposed to be providing people with assistance while giving them job training. Eventually, the job training is supposed to allow people living in poverty to work their way out of the welfare system, but there is a “fundamental disconnect between our worker-training and welfare systems”. Work-training is directed towards people with that already have job experience and expertise and are just struggling to find a job that fits their skill set. The problem lies within the people that are unskilled and need the most help from this program; they
