Workfare

In her article, "From America 's New Working Class" (342), Arnold finds that individuals under "workfare" factories face brutal conditions such as freezing temperatures, sexual assaults, murder, and kidnapping. However, these factories remain unsupervised and deregulated, and despite all these factory worker 's hard work and conditions, there is no…

In the book, Don’t 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…

Created for the unemployed, poverty stricken, ill, and elderly, welfare affects almost everyone at some point in his or her life (Katz). Including several different state and federally run programs, welfare is an intricate and confusing concept to fully comprehend (Altmeyer). Composed of two separate groups, welfare is both public and private (Katz). Public welfare consists of public assistance or means-tested programs, social insurance, and taxation and is funded by the state and federal…

workers and to give elderly workers economic relief after retirement. When President Roosevelt ran for office he promised the American citizens a "New Deal" to relieve American suffering. The New Deal sought to provide two objectives. The first was "workfare" in place of "welfare." This would take place by poviding short-term employment in public works projects. The second objective was to create a more organized economic system. This would encourage the recovery of the private sector in the…

There are two types of poverty in the world. Firstly, there is absolute poverty which is when people don’t have the money to afford human needs such as food, drinking water, education, shelter and good health. Secondly, there is relative poverty. This is a condition where people don’t have enough income required to live a decent or average life. In Singapore, it is easier to find relative poverty. According to the Singapore government, Singapore does not have a proper definition of poverty.…

Each year in the United States, approximately eleven thousand people die due to shootings every year. This rate is higher than any other industrialized nation in the world. People ask many questions as to why this is and look for answers explaining why death from firearms in the U.S.A. amounts to such a high toll. Whether it is the people living in the country, the cultural influences, the easy access to ammunition and guns or a combination of all of these, the question of if the country is “a…

can ensure the children have a better chance of living. This can be done by getting the children back to school and also putting the adults back to the path of work. Instead of setting up the welfare system to provide food for these families, a “workfare” program should be initiated to put families to work. Creating more working opportunities creates a long lasting solution and also reduces the high cost that these families place on the public sector each year. Improving the perception, mental…

Lone-Parent Families is the type of families that consists of a mother or a father, with no spouse or common-law partner present, living in a household comprised of one or more dependent children. It can also be where a parent lives with dependent children, either alone or in a larger household, without a spouse or partner. Single parent is a parent who cares for one or more children without physical assistance of another parent in home. This description could be a single parent families with…

If a survey were conducted to determine Americans’ biggest worries, most respondents would certainly say it is finances, because America has classes, and the most pronounced ones are based on economic status. The country is resident to a few super rich individuals who can afford almost anything with a financial value. At the same time, there are many who run their lives on perpetual fear of drowning in the whirlpool of poverty. Writer such as Barbare Ehrenreich, in her essay "Serving in Florida"…

The 20th Century was responsible for tremendous changes in political policies to address socioeconomic problems. When the economy began to collapse attention shifted from social justice reform, and economic concerns dominated the larger political agenda. During the 1960 Presidential Campaign John F. Kennedy pitched his concept of a "new frontier”. He was on a crusade in the foundation of the past with a commitment to elicit renewal and change for a brighter future. President Kennedy's vision…