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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…

a. It can change rapidly. c. It is easy to regulate. b. It protects the less fortunate. d. It encourages growth. 6. What might be a hardship for citizens of a centrally planned economy making a transition to a market-based system? a. Farmers would have to grow the crops that the government instructed them to. b. Only poor quality goods would be available to consumers, because manufacturers focused on quantity, not quality. c. Workers would lose job security and guaranteed incomes. d.…

Is social welfare a “poverty trap” or a “safety net”? Social welfare in the United States has been a hotly debated topic, ever since 1776. I am sure it goes further back but I will stick with 1776. Benjamin Franklin has at one time, spoken about how he felt about social welfare. According to Franklin, “…I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.—I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.…