What Are The Causes Of The Civil War Confederate Families

During the Civil War, Georg a, a state in the Confederacy recognized that soldier’s families were suffering from having the men at war; the women and children were forced to take over the responsibilities of the men. “The Georgia government started programs that gave money and salt to the civil war veteran families”(Fowler, 2010. P.11) The Georgian government created the Soldiers' Families Fund to provide financial assistance to make sure confederate families had enough money to survive on while the war waged on.
The next time welfare would be addressed was at the start of the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a time when the United States Stock market crashed. The Stock Market crashed on the day October 29th, 1929; otherwise known
“The unemployment rate went from 3.2 percent to an immense percentage of 24.9 in 1933 and from there it went up to 26.7 percent. At one time after the crash, thirty-four million men, women, and children were without any income at all not including farming families who were hit more severe” (Rothboard, 2000. Pg. XV). Due to the economy crashing, the government was scrambling looking for things to get the economy back on track. President Franklin Roosevelt moved quickly from taking office wrote and got congress to pass numerous programs to help the economy know as the New Deal (Writers, 2009). The New Deal would be crucial if the country were to come back to an economic norm. One of the programs provided economic benefits to the Elderly and unemployed. One of the main parts of the New Deal was Aid to Families with Dependent Children, “This provided benefits to families with children under eighteen living with their parents, or families with only one parent due to death or just absence”(Shoffner, D; Tambarini, C. 2011. P.6). Another central part of the New Deal was the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, this act created
Drug testing has its pros and cons. One pro is that it would immediately take off any drug users who could use the money for drugs or other illegal substances; adding to that, it would give people the motivation to stay off drugs for themselves and their families if they want to still receive government benefits. Some people look at it like, if people are getting jobs have to get drug tested, why don’t the people receiving welfare have to?”(HRF, 2014). One of the cons for drug testing is that people feel like it is discrimination against the poor. The poor believe that higher up people who are considered rich aren’t required to take a drug test (HRF,