Welfare state

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…

In modern society, the term “Social welfare” has been regularly misinterpreted and judged in many levels. The society often believes that social welfare is only specifically referring to programs such as social assistance for the poor. Truth is, everyone in the society is a recipient of some form of social welfare program. It includes tax benefits, public services, and even Canada Pension Plan along with many other beneficial programs. On one hand, such system should be regulated and modified…

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…

In 2016, Charles Murray published an essay in the Wall Street Journal, in which he argues for the implement of a UBI, or universal basic income. Murray explains that implementing a UBI will only work efficiently if all welfare programs are taken away. He argues that doing this, every citizen will be forced to take care of themselves. Murray continues on to examine the effects on the workforce by explaining that “[i]t also could provide an invaluable benefit: injecting new resources and new…

The detriment of dependency? –Issues surrounding youth and welfare Social policies to alleviate problems are always approached from a certain perspective. When tackling the ‘issue’ of welfare dependency, Paula Bennett (2012, n.p) takes a neo-liberal standpoint. Essential assumptions for her framing of the issue include individuals as free agents lacking a work ethic, which the Social Security bill hopes to combat. However, this is a limited portrayal of the issue. Alternate views such as those…

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,…

9-22-14 The Facade of Welfare The common misconception that welfare users are abusing their income has been the biggest lie that has overcome the United States. Over half the tax payers would like to say that many welfare users are taking advantage of the system by having kids to gain benefits, or not looking for jobs so they can keep their unemployment income. But what the taxpayers fail to understand is that the government they love, is the sole reason that many welfare recipients are on this…

heard anyone say “We need to get rid of the welfare state”? In America the minimum wage is not sufficient enough for people to actually survive, because of this problem facing the American people, the government decided to introduce a social program called welfare, Welfare is a program where the government helps people in poverty make ends meet, and If Welfare benefits were immediately abolished it would cause Social unrest/Chaos to ensue. The American welfare system has been around since the…

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…

Welfare applicants should be given a drug test before receiving their welfare money. Evidence has shown that the opportunity of receiving welfare money has been abused in many cases. Many Americans are unhappy because of their tax money being given to people that do not use their money for essentials. A lot of the people that depend on welfare money are not drug users, but a lot are. It is not fair for the people that really are in need and do not spend their money on drugs. If the states…