Essay On Ending Welfare

We should focus on ending the poverty rather than ending the welfare. We know the current welfare policies are set to discourage welfare recipients. “The role of the government under the welfare program is to teach poor parents and children that they must make it on their own without the safety net of public assistance”, for example, the TANF program has time limits and mandatory work requirements. (Culilty 1) the common misconception about the welfare recipients is that they do not want to work or they are lazy people and therefore those people should be controlled. Since the government aims to end the welfare rather than ending the poverty they consider the “47 percent reduction in welfare caseload” as a success. They do not care and question what there is a reduction and what happened to those who left the welfare services. However, the program that is called SPIN, a welfare rights advocacy organization in San Diego cares about people who are impacted by the welfare reform. “Spin is created to empower women and to make their voice heard” (Cullity, 4). I think it is very important to raise voices in order to be heard by the authorities. For example, many students at CSUSM are complaining about the parking fees but they just whisper it. No one is actually is raising a voice that would bring a solution to unjustly set parking …show more content…
What more important than health for people. Health society is a productive society and society cannot function if it is not provided with a healthcare. I think it should be government responsibility to provide every citizen with a perfectly functioning healthcare so part of their income does not have to be spent on health care. Higher education, childcare, housing are other expenses that counts toward income