Welfare state

An Explanation of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 This paper was written to address The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, which was established “to reduce the number of children in foster care for extended lengths of time through written permanency plans that emphasized family preservation, reunification, or adoption.” (Chapin, 2017, p. 450). The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act provides government support for adoptions to reduce monetary…

Although the welfare system started out as just an appreciated helping hand for people in need, undoubtedly it has moved from that helping hand, to a way of holding individuals back from succeeding on their own, through its many programs such as food stamps, low income assistance, housing assistance, to the basic fact of who actually gets the assistance. Welfare really got to dig its roots into America during the time of the Great Depression. It was at this point, when local and state…

Many American tax paying citizens believe that the recipients of welfare should be drug tested so they know where their tax dollars are going to be spent. Welfare is defined as the government giving people in need financial support so they can live their everyday life. SNAP is an acronym for the “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” which helps low-income families and individuals buy the food they need to provide for themselves and their family. This money gets loaded onto what is called…

There are different aspect to the welfare system. There is food stamps, TANF, Medicaid, and other type’s public assistance. There is some myths to people that are receiving the public assistance, one of these being that families getting help tend to have a lot of children. The truth is that 37% of the people receiving TANF only have one child. And 27% of families receiving TANF has two children (Koppelman, 2005, p.219). Another myth that families that receive public assistance is lazy or will…

Welfare Assistance is well known throughout the United States and has been around for many decades. The real question is, is welfare a permanent solution or a temporary fix to the massive widespread issue in today’s society? The welfare system in the United States performs a wide variety of functions to assist people who are in need of help. There are many different assistance programs, but the more dominate ones are cash, food, child care assistance, medical, housing, social security, education…

Welfare needs to stop acting on good intentions and start acting on discernment by creating a motivation to work and get out of poverty. There are two major ways to promote this strategy: to make it so that welfare is only given out with the condition that those who receive it must be in active pursuit of a job and to make it so that welfare is only given to those who become enrolled in getting some kind of education or training. For example, according to Erin Thomas, who is a social work…

“Welfare is the fastest growing part of government spending. Between 1989 and fiscal year 2008, mean-tested welfare spending increased by 292 percent.” (The Heritage Foundation, Web) Roughly 12,800,000 Americans, which is 4.1% of those living in the United States are on welfare or some form of government assistance. The United States government spends $131.9 billion on welfare annually, not including food stamps and unemployment. $1 trillion annually are spent throughout all 83 government…

The welfare program in the United States is abused by many Americans. Citizens in the program get their sense of responsibility muted causing dependency on the government. The government does not give its users a limit of how many people they will provide for, causing them to have bigger families in return for more money. There is a misuse of government grants and aids, and many abuse the money received. Welfare is intended to be an aid for the citizens who have an actual need for it while they…

The main purpose of welfare service is to assist the U.S population who are not able to support themselves of their families due to unemployment, disability, elderly age, and/or being a single parent. Welfare, though it was meant for the greater good, is misused by many recipients and is too easily obtained for those who merely look for a way to live life the easy way, without a job. I believe that the government should enforce stricter requirements needed to apply for Welfare benefits in order…

Is the issue of crime in predominantly black communities a structural or cultural issue? By using the lens of Critical Race Theory (CRT) we can begin to understand that the answer is not as simple as blaming everything on cultural or structural barriers. Instead, the deep rooted causes of crime are entrenched in many aspects of both culture and society. We can see this through education, wealth disparities, and more factors entrenched in America.  To begin to understand why crime rates are…