Diversity Role Written Assignment Analysis
Diversity Role Written Assignment:
A Person Receiving Welfare
Fundamentals of Human Communication
Take a Step Out!
My name is Mae Jones; I am 16 years old and the oldest child of three. My mother is a stay at home mom with only a high school diploma, and my father was the primary provider for our family until recently when he was laid-off. We are currently receiving government assistance due to my father’s unemployment. The total number of Americans on welfare is 12,800,000 out of 316,800,000 people roughly living in the United States. That is about 4.1 percent of everyday Americans living off of government assistance daily (Welfare Statistics). Many people have the wrong impression of what welfare …show more content…
We have down sized in terms of living space from a family house to a small two-bedroom apartment where my Mom and I share a room and my Dad and brothers share a room. I wake up every morning and walk to the bus stop to go to school, since we sold the family car to pay off bills. During lunchtime I sit with one friend because the others look down on me. When I get home I have to make dinner and help my brothers with their homework while my parents are at their minimum wage paying jobs. Family dinners are not what they used to be. My parents are always arguing which is starting to affect my brothers and me. (Question …show more content…
They will ask why families like mine have to be such a burden on taxpayers, but citizens receiving assistance help circulate money to the economy and small businesses. Another prejudice people have is that all citizens receiving welfare are addicts and lazy. This is saying that only the poor are alcoholics or drug addicts, which is untrue because we hear about celebrities going into rehab every other day. Also like mentioned before a person receiving government assistance like food stamps must work a full-time job (Freeman). (Question
A Person Receiving Welfare
Fundamentals of Human Communication
Take a Step Out!
My name is Mae Jones; I am 16 years old and the oldest child of three. My mother is a stay at home mom with only a high school diploma, and my father was the primary provider for our family until recently when he was laid-off. We are currently receiving government assistance due to my father’s unemployment. The total number of Americans on welfare is 12,800,000 out of 316,800,000 people roughly living in the United States. That is about 4.1 percent of everyday Americans living off of government assistance daily (Welfare Statistics). Many people have the wrong impression of what welfare …show more content…
We have down sized in terms of living space from a family house to a small two-bedroom apartment where my Mom and I share a room and my Dad and brothers share a room. I wake up every morning and walk to the bus stop to go to school, since we sold the family car to pay off bills. During lunchtime I sit with one friend because the others look down on me. When I get home I have to make dinner and help my brothers with their homework while my parents are at their minimum wage paying jobs. Family dinners are not what they used to be. My parents are always arguing which is starting to affect my brothers and me. (Question …show more content…
They will ask why families like mine have to be such a burden on taxpayers, but citizens receiving assistance help circulate money to the economy and small businesses. Another prejudice people have is that all citizens receiving welfare are addicts and lazy. This is saying that only the poor are alcoholics or drug addicts, which is untrue because we hear about celebrities going into rehab every other day. Also like mentioned before a person receiving government assistance like food stamps must work a full-time job (Freeman). (Question