Welfare is government-provided support for those in need and who can’t support themselves. It was established by the Social Security Act of 1935‚ and it was created due to the Great Depression in the 1930s. The Welfare system greatly impacted many lives during the Great Depression and continues to help many families today. Not only has it helped families but it has helped the elderly‚ disabled‚ and mentally challenged. These different types of individuals use the system as it was meant to be used
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110 September 2013 Welfare: In Serious Need Of Reform Welfare assistance programs have been in place in America for over 75 years. Following The Great Depression‚ President Roosevelt created the Social Security Act in 1935 in order to meet the needs of the elderly and unemployed. The Act also provided funding to states for programs such as the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program in order to help children who were living in poverty (Streissguth 7-12). Welfare started out quite successfully
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Welfare in America Econ 3150.001 Fall 2010 Economics of Discrimination Abstract This paper will discuss welfare in America. Being from California and living there for 21 years‚ I have seen many minority groups struggle‚ including blacks from central LA‚ and Hispanics legal and non-legal in San Diego‚ and across Southern California. I am curious to explore how much taxpayers pay for service programs and welfare in our country as a whole‚ and will be taking the side of limiting
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Welfare: handouts to the lazy‚ or a helping hand to those facing hard times? The debate continues‚ even in the face of sweeping welfare reform‚ which‚ for all of its sound and fury‚ has not helped or changed much. What’s wrong with welfare and how can we fix it? This is not a simple question‚ and there is no simple answer. However‚ one thing remains eminently clear. Welfare desperately needs to change. But where are we now? Are we headed backward or forward? Does anybody even care? In “The Compassion
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The first half of the 20th century saw Britain evolving into a welfare state lots of policies come into place within the early 1920-1930s which aimed to help people with housing‚ unemployment‚ education‚ pensions‚ insurance problems which where all massive issues at that current time and in 1940s a policy was created which allowed people to get health care and sick pay (Rose‚ 1992). In the 19th Century the prisons went from private to public control and to Cohen (1985) this was the start of increasing
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Welfare was created in 1935 to provide for the families in need of food‚ clothing‚ and shelter‚ but today it has become a large‚ controversial topic. Some people argue that it is ridiculous that some people can’t take care of themselves and must rely on everyone else’s money to support them. Those people cause those on welfare to become ashamed of themselves. I believe people on welfare should not feel ashamed because some do hold a job if not multiple‚ but still cannot provide for themselves and
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History of Minority Populations in the Child Welfare System The child welfare system was created as the need to address the basic needs and provisions of poor children was more and more evident throughout the 19th century. Through the passing decades‚ the need to provide supportive services for these children’s families was also a concern. Among the agencies responsible for providing these services are state and county child protective services as well as adoption agencies and foster homes
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Many public policies that are documented‚ frequently have negative consequences that are overlooked. One of these documents would be the drug testing of welfare recipients; screening public assistance recipients for the abuse of any intoxicating substances. Even though suspicions have risen about substance abuse among welfare participants‚ those suspicions lack factual information. Many of these suspicions‚ however‚ arise from the mental problems which some of the recipients actually suffer from
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Government-Run welfare The current use of government-run welfare systems is an ineffective and inefficient way to help solve poverty and unemployment in urban areas. Flawed in almost every way‚ it requires immediate improvement and attention‚ and could be improved with privatization of many welfare programs‚ including prisons‚ charity and housing. Welfare can be improved in more ways than one‚ and one of the biggest problems in need of a fix is the government’s attitude toward the programs they
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From Welfare to Workfare TABLE OF CONTENTS THE ORIGINS OF WORKFARE 1 THE BASICS OF WORKFARE . 2 PC POLICY DIRECTION OF WORKFARE 2 WHY? A CONSERVATIVE POINT OF VIEW 4 WHY NOT? AN OPPOSITION ’S POINT OF VIEW 6 CONCLUSION 8 WORKS CITED "THE ORIGINS
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