According to Earl Babbie’s data, it shows that in 1978, there are 8.1 percentages of 5000 people were receiving welfare income, and only 3.5 percentages of 5000 people were dependent on welfare for more than half of the family income. This shows that there were minorities receiving welfare, and not all of them valued welfare as an importance, which could support their lives. Furthermore, people who were receiving welfare at least once in the ten years period were occupied 25.2 percentages, and only 8.7 percentages of these people were depending on welfare as part of their incomes. This means people were not getting welfare as essential. As Earl Babbie has argued, “welfare has become an intergenerational way of life,” this has referred to the
