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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College Prep English III 1 April 2013 Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Welfare began during the great depression in the 1930’s then‚ just like now‚ there were many families that needed help from the government‚ and that is why they introduced welfare. In our world today there is social welfare‚ corporate welfare‚ child welfare‚ and many others that one can apply for. Other welfare programs‚ such as TANF and WIC‚ have truly made a difference in the lives of American families. Families are kept together
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necessities. Welfare is the financial support of people in need but how does the government decide who needs it. Is it the government’s responsibility to help them or should these people not depend on others to help them? Murray believes that welfare is not good because there is always going to be someone who is getting it that doesn’t need it and someone who needs it but isn’t getting it. He also believes that people who are getting will become completely dependent on it.Walzer believes that welfare is good
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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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CHAPTER ONE SITUATION ANALYIS To be able to come up with a good child welfare advocacy‚ the group assessed the external and internal situation. This chapter evaluates the situations and trends in a particular advocacy. It provides the information needed for planning. Background of Child Welfare Child welfare is a government- run service for protecting children and young people who are underage which are still vulnerable to abuses like commercial sexual exploitation‚ trafficking‚ child labor
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University of the West Indies Soci 2023- Social Policy and Administration I Unit 3- A framework for understanding social welfare policy Discussion Question Ralph Dolgoff and Ronald Feldstein proposed a schema for examining Welfare programs in their text‚ Understanding Social Welfare: A search for social justice. This schema gives three basic areas under which these programs could be examined. These areas are that of structural components‚ alternative program characteristics and ways to evaluate
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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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