Welfare trap

In this article on “Hungray’s refugee referendum not valid after voters stay away”, The prime mister in name of Viktor Orban came up big in the news. Hungray votes on accepting more migrants. He was unsuccessful in getting the population in Hungarian to vote. There was also reports that around 95% voting against the admission of refugees to Hungray. In the end, people that were supposed to vote, about half stayed and home so the process failed and blamed Viktor. The refugee referendum is…

According to Dr. Paul Johnson of Auburn University, an entitlement program can be defined as a, “government program that provides individuals with personal financial benefits...to which an indefinite ... number of potential beneficiaries have a legal right whenever they meet eligibility conditions…” Some such programs include, but are not limited to, Social Security, Medicare, unemployment compensation, and food stamps. Though some, such as social security, have proven to be rather successful…

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…

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…

complicated path of receiving financial relief. In 1996, the Welfare Reform Act was passed and on the surface seemed to present a wide variety of benefits and provisions for those who rely on welfare. According to reports, within three years of the reforms existence millions of Americans who previously relied on welfare declared themselves financially self-dependent. In addition, agencies reported a reduction in the number of social welfare cases. As mentioned in Edin and Shaefer’s novel,…

taken advantage of. The most devastating and easiest to abuse is the welfare system. So many families take advantage of the system that actually assists so many people actually in need. The Medicaid program has more participants than any other welfare system (Welfare 5). Welfare programs where introduced to assist families in need to live a good quality lifestyle, and also to help support their children. Families abusing the welfare circumstances clearly have no incentive to increase their work…

Has welfare become the dominant means for our poor and starving families of America? Is the government making the welfare system such an easy means of access that Americans are forgetting about equal employment? Welfare Programs, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy families(TANF), food stamps, medical insurance were created systems to helps families that are needy or in need of these services. They have helped many families that doesn’t have a job, money or any shelter. Some Americans…

I agree that many social welfare policies are designed to perpetuate poverty. I always go back to my phrase “modern day slavery” as what I believe the welfare system perpetrate for the African American community. I believe that unemployment is high in the United States and the demand for good paying jobs has increased. For example, in order to even get a quality paying job that can support a family, one must have some sort of education, have a specific job related skill(s), professional…

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…

within the United States over the past couple of decades. A social safety net is an idea where a state or government uses its capabilities to prevent individuals from falling into poverty beyond a certain level. This is done via programs such as: welfare, universal health care, and unemployment benefits. One could say that these programs are necessary in order to help people in poverty or those who are close to being in poverty. Others could say that these programs are being abused by…