Welfare Reform
Welfare Recipients and Adult Education
Welfare Recipients and Adult Education
There is an enormous disparity between American households in their ability to afford and attend adult education. Suffice it to say that the plethora of barriers faced by families able to make a living through working a forty plus hour a week job would definitely hinder a family living on or just above the poverty level from getting a higher adult education degree. This paper examines and explores the possibility and difficulty of the single family female head of the household’s prospects of gaining an adult education in the United States . There will be a discussion on the barriers that family members see as preventing consideration of attending adult …show more content…
“One such survey shows the percentage of adults reporting specific types of barriers to participation.” The various reasons the adult learners choose not to participate ranged from job related, family related, institutional, or dispositional related barriers.
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The program “Aide to Dependent Children (ADC) was established by the Social Security Act of 1935. A grant program designed to provide welfare payment for needy children without parental support or care”. Before 1950 the money was specifically meant to care for the child. From 1950 to 1962 the federal government added funds that were to go toward the maintenance costs of a caretaker relative, an unemployed parent, and the name was changed to Aid to Families with Dependent Children. “Welfare rolls peaked in 1994, reaching more than 5 million cases---14.2 million individual recipients. Before welfare reform, one child in seven received AFDC” Today the welfare program has shifted, transformed, balloon into a multi-faceted organization that has made it easier for unwed mothers to gain assistance when they have children.
The Problem of Welfare Recipients A potential problem that welfare recipients experience is the difficulty of juggling the requirements of finding a job that adequately provides enough to pay for the child care and the monthly living expenses. Finding child care while the mother is participates in some form of adult education is also extremely challenging. If there is not a nearly relative or friend that will help, professional child care services are difficult
Welfare Recipients and Adult Education
There is an enormous disparity between American households in their ability to afford and attend adult education. Suffice it to say that the plethora of barriers faced by families able to make a living through working a forty plus hour a week job would definitely hinder a family living on or just above the poverty level from getting a higher adult education degree. This paper examines and explores the possibility and difficulty of the single family female head of the household’s prospects of gaining an adult education in the United States . There will be a discussion on the barriers that family members see as preventing consideration of attending adult …show more content…
“One such survey shows the percentage of adults reporting specific types of barriers to participation.” The various reasons the adult learners choose not to participate ranged from job related, family related, institutional, or dispositional related barriers.
Welfare …show more content…
The program “Aide to Dependent Children (ADC) was established by the Social Security Act of 1935. A grant program designed to provide welfare payment for needy children without parental support or care”. Before 1950 the money was specifically meant to care for the child. From 1950 to 1962 the federal government added funds that were to go toward the maintenance costs of a caretaker relative, an unemployed parent, and the name was changed to Aid to Families with Dependent Children. “Welfare rolls peaked in 1994, reaching more than 5 million cases---14.2 million individual recipients. Before welfare reform, one child in seven received AFDC” Today the welfare program has shifted, transformed, balloon into a multi-faceted organization that has made it easier for unwed mothers to gain assistance when they have children.
The Problem of Welfare Recipients A potential problem that welfare recipients experience is the difficulty of juggling the requirements of finding a job that adequately provides enough to pay for the child care and the monthly living expenses. Finding child care while the mother is participates in some form of adult education is also extremely challenging. If there is not a nearly relative or friend that will help, professional child care services are difficult