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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Welfare is supposed to be the financial support of people truly in need. The benefits provided by this system range from medical coverage to food stamps. People deserving of welfare include the mentally disabled‚ elderly‚ and the employees of minimum wage jobs. The United States Government established this system to aid its citizens‚ but in reality it accomplished the opposite goal. Welfare has been administered unfairly to those attempting to cheat the system. Because of this‚ the effects have been
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implications of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on Medicaid. A negative implication is that even though most of the people on welfare and Medicaid are able-bodied people who could be self-sufficient if they had to be‚ Medicaid and other social programs reinforce these people’s laziness and unwillingness to contribute to society. Welfare reform has only decreased handouts marginally. A positive implication is that some effort was made to reduce the number of people who were dependent upon the state. The genetic
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The Welfare Reform Act Summary The Welfare Reform Act‚ also known as the “The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996”‚ was intentionally designed to help needy families with children dependents and/or people receiving Supplemental Security Income with cash benefits‚ who in turn would be eligible for Medicaid Health Insurance (Valerius‚ Bayes‚ Newby‚ & Seggern‚ 2008). The Welfare Reform Act replaced a program called “AFDC (Aid to families with dependent children)”
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Welfare dependency is when a person or household is reliant on government welfare benefits. They use welfare benefits for their income for a long period of time‚ and without the benefits they would not be able to pay for things for daily living. Some individuals may use this benefit even though they make more than an individual who may need the benefits more than they do. This benefit is supposed to help families with low income‚ but many people take advantage of this benefit to get what they want
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2105) into law‚ thus fulfilling his campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it." The PRWORA changed both the substance and administration of the national welfare system. The act eliminated the prior welfare system‚ which had been attacked for decades by policy-makers‚ the press‚ and the public for increasing government spending while making the poor dependent on government charity. The stated purposes of the PRWORA were to reduce welfare dependency and out-of-wedlock births and to encourage the
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The welfare system we have in the U.S. is flawed in so many ways that we need to change it. The welfare system is failing by letting people buy drugs with their money‚ let’s people take the money without a reason for it‚ and letting the government have all the power. If we really want the welfare system to become what we wanted it to be then these things will need to be changed. The first reason the welfare system is failing is because people will buy drugs with the money they receive from it. Some
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The welfare reform proposal was an emotional battle as it suggested cutting funding to welfare programs. There was an ideological split between the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democrats argued that that government assistance programs can alleviate poverty. The Republicans believed that the current welfare system created dependency‚ illegitimacy‚ and more poverty. The main aspects of change in the welfare reform bill were: turning over welfare funds to the states‚ imposing a five year time
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abstracts welfare reform Abstracts for Welfare Reform The state of the social safety net in the post-welfare reform era. Publication: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Publish date:September 22‚ 2010 Author:Bitler‚ Marianne P.; Hoynes‚ Hilary W. The 1996 welfare reform led to sweeping changes to the central cash safety net program for families with children. Along with
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Child Welfare was established in 1830 through 1860 for poor children running the streets. The end of the 19th century you had more child welfare offices formed‚ but they rarely went into the home and got involved. In 1989‚ Florence Davenport-Hill published a book called; “Children of the state‚” which explain these children were being abused in these homes run by the state. By 1919‚ every state had a juvenile court had the authority to come in on cases from neglect and abuse. The national commission
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