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Reflection on: “‘They Never Did Me Any Good’: Welfare-To-Work Programs From the Vantage Point of Poor Women”. The article first provided an overview of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconsolidation Act (PRWORA), and described it as a governmental attempt to reduce the dependency on welfare. In class we have discussed the Welfare-to-Workfare programs, which creates precarious jobs—underpaid, temporary, with little to no benefits. While the program aims to help individuals…

Introduction In the world we live in, it is an important concept to remember that poor people are needed for society to function. Never should anyone wish misfortune on any human being, but the way we operate together requires proletariat and the bourgeoisie. This idea comes from “Marxism theory” stating that class conflict comes into response to the modes of production. This is where the poor and rich come into play. The poor create a labor force to produce products, while the rich use…

like most of their urban counter partners. Similarly, some elderly in urban centers including Accra risk becoming poor and in need of fiscal assistance if the supports they need in their economic life are not provided. This decentralized and localized means of defining expectations of the program ensure scarce fiscal resource are given the those in most need while economically active elderly are given physical or material support. Thus, there is the need for local community-based age care…

“The United States has the highest poverty rate of any advance industrial nation” (Elizabetha, 2013). To illustrate, African Americans held the highest percentage rate on the poverty scale for decades. Despite, the government programs created to assist with short-term needs of the lower class. Still, the numbers of participants utilizing such programs remain the same. The inquiry is, why does poverty still exist among African Americans in the United States? Whereas, many doubts have started to…

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…

Through education, new programs, and policy the victims of food deserts will become empowered and a new way of life will prevail. Food deserts symbolize the current social –economic climate in our country today. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, a food desert is an area where urban residents live one mile or rural residents live ten miles or more from a supermarket or large grocery store and where the poverty rate is twenty percent or the medium family income is at…

Poverty is hard work, single mothers The quote “poverty is hard work” comes from an article written by Mark Peel. In his article he discusses the struggles that are involved when living in poverty, such as the judgement, going without and the lack of help towards Australians in poverty. Mark Peel goes into great detail in expressing his argument (Peel, 2012). However, as the topic of poverty is such a large concept, this essay has been limited to single mothers in poverty. Furthermore, to…

Virginia Employment Commission The Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) administers an unemployment insurance program that provides protection against loss of wages to individuals who become unemployed through no fault of their own. In order to qualify for benefits, you must have earned enough wages in covered employment during the base period. The amount of wages you earned will determine your weekly benefit amount and the maximum number of weeks (12 to 26 weeks) to which you will be entitled.…

Depending on the obligations there are two types of pension plans, defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans A defined contribution plan is a type of retirement plan in which the employer, employee or both make contributions on a regular basis. individual accounts for participants and benefits are set are based on the amounts credited to these accounts plus any return on investment of the money in the account. Only employee contributions to the account are guaranteed, no future…

Racism Racial inequality and its relationship to social injustice in America is overwhelmingly interwoven into the premise of all three narratives of ‘Just Mercy,’ ‘Nobody,’ and ‘$2.00 a Day’. Just Mercy’s Bryan Stevenson exposes some of these disparities woven around his presentation of the Walter McMillian case, and the overrepresentation of African-American men in our criminal justice system. Stevenson’s (2014) accounts of actors within the criminal justice system such as Judge Robert E.…