Conditional Cash Transfer

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…

Generational Deficits: The complexity of generational poverty One would assume that if one generation is impoverished and the next generation is also impoverished, that this had to be from the same lack of resource and exclusively that. This generational poverty, however, does not necessarily have to be the same as the one preceding it. Each generation who is impoverished finds themselves in a new situation that has its own unique deficits of a certain resource that they simply cannot live…

In a racist society, it is unavoidable that programs to assist people of poverty be designed to bring up cultural prejudice. This goes to show how the workforce is organized around racial differences; consequently assistance programs will mirror those divisions. Otherwise the distribution of assistance to culturally minority people would produce a substitute to the low-wage labor to which they are already given, as a result undermining the racial foundation for allocating jobs. American social…

The National Welfare System, established in 1935, supports over a hundred million financially struggling Americans a year. Recent congressional and presidential debates have brought to attention a call for welfare reform. Supporters of the reform argue that the current welfare system drains American taxpayers, creates a weak economy, and increases social instability. Because the current system is unmonitored and unstable, thousands of American citizens, whom do not need government assistance,…

1) The way this question is worded, I would have to say both. The welfare program should act as a “bridge” between poverty and above poverty levels. Being on the welfare program should act, as a “Band-Aid” to make up the difference a recipient is earning and the poverty threshold level. The recipient should take the welfare program as a short-term fix until possibly they move up in their workplace to gain advancement in pay or actually get a job that pays more than the poverty threshold.…

funds needed in order to grow themselves, and give them the opportunity to get out of poverty. Elizabeth Lower-Basch, the senior policy analyst for the Center for Law and Social Policy, makes the claim that, “No one gets out of poverty by receiving cash assistance” (CQ Researcher Child Poverty, 907) Children get out of poverty by working hard and earning everything they get. Whenever families are just given money it does not teach them to work hard, and it does not teach them the skills they…

3. Write a summary of the month. What did you buy? Did you get an apartment? What did you eat? What did you buy? How was the quality of life during that month? This month was a pretty ok one. I bought things such as food from Dollar Tree, Hannaford and Dollar General. I was able to buy enough food that would last my family for the month and still have an adequate amount of money left for more food, if need be. I was also able to purchase an apartment for eight hundred dollars a month. This…

Australian families face solidarity and Division: Numbers of sole parent households are increasing, with predictions of a 65% increase within Australia by 2036. Although financial assistance is provided by the welfare system, families continue to experience financial hardship. Recent statistics suggests, that sole parent families are at the highest risk of experiencing disadvantage. Why are so many Australian sole parent families living so close to or below the calculated poverty line?…

The Other America The Other America, by Michael Harrington provides the reader with an extremely vivid look inside poverty in America and the issues surrounding it. One of those issues is with the assistance provided, otherwise known as welfare. The assistance provided to those in poverty is not designed to benefit them, but was built by those with little understanding of poverty. Individuals apart of the Other America face barriers to accessing assistance. The type of assistance may not offer…