Welfare and poverty

The presence of child poverty in New Zealand has been a long standing issue since before the 1990’s and continues to be prevalent in today’s New Zealand. Although child poverty can be linked to multiple causes, there is one major cause that is not widely discussed enough within the political world of New Zealand. This is the issue of structural inequality, structural inequality can be loosely described as “denot[ing] methodical and often subtle processes through which social structures…

“Simply put, welfare reform worked because we all worked together”, President Bill Clinton beamed, after signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. After the passing of the PRWORA, dependence on welfare had been nearly cut in half, and unemployment rates were down. But, was workfare really all it was made out to be? Not exactly. Although the aid of workfare sounds effective in theory, it has proven to be unsuccessful and often subjects its recipients…

The welfare payments should not be reduced to encourage recipients to get jobs, because this will have the opposite affect instead due to regular expenses, childcare and mental health problems. The decay of social assistance and income in Canada with its correlation to the rise of homelessness over the past 30 years, reveals that government social safety is not as reliable as one is taught to believe (Government Benefits, par 2). Cutting payments will push recipients into poverty and debt which…

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,…

perception of poor dependent individuals. Some ways that policies are affected are the way policy makers view the “welfare” recipients. They view the unemployed, as lazy simply because the economy is not providing them with a decent job. Another ideology that the policy makers have is that minorities are the only population that receives “welfare”. Lastly, people who are dependent on welfare to survive cannot fend for themselves. They need assistance for various reasons like illness or…

from a supermarket or large grocery store and where the poverty rate is twenty percent or the medium family income is at eighty percent or lower of the median family income. Due to the large economic disparity, citizens lack access to affordable and healthy foods. On the other hand, there is an overabundance of fast food restaurants and corner stores that are filled with…

use today and is known as the Welfare system. First we need to understand exactly what is the welfare system. The Welfare system that this paper focuses on is known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). The Welfare system is often grouped with food stamps, housing aid, and other government assistance programs. Although these programs are forms of government aid, whenever people…

Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America, author Lisa Dodson writes about the challenges and experiences women endure while living under the federal poverty line. The title of the book itself, represents the women, and their fight to overcome the stigma that comes from receiving welfare, participating in work programs, or from early motherhood. As Dodson (1998) mentions, that each story told by a woman demonstrates their personal trauma or their fierce…

of the Census’s 1999 statistics on the poverty more than 32 million Americans, 11.8 percent of the population is below the poverty line and mostly people who are under the age of 18, people from Northeast region, female head with no husband, and 2 person family size, and Non-Hispanic white people is at the top of the chart. According to the P&L there are three levels of poverty. The translational poor are people who are experiencing temporary and brief poverty. The marginal poor are working poor…

Someone living in poverty simply means that someone is poor, and it plays a bigger part of our society than we pay attention to it. What is the fine line of being poor and not poor? We have been discussing this for decades. Often times we choose not to discuss this topic because it is sensitive to some individuals, and now days people are easily offended. People need to swallow their huge ego and admitted the situation they are in, and to accept help that they deserve. However, that is not…