Welfare was established for those who were in difficult times. It serves as somewhat of a safety net. Welfare has helped many people including Annie Downey, as discussed in the article. She is a single mother with very few resources and relied upon welfare in order to care for her children, to pay her monthly expenses, to eat and even advance her career to get a degree in education. These are some of the positive attribute of welfare. The negative attributes of welfare include the stigma associated with welfare. People treat you as if you’re not a real person. When going through the process of securing the welfare resources, people look at you strangely in grocery stores, associate you with the welfare recipients who have abused the
