Adair's 'Enforcing The Work Ethic.'

The welfare program for instance is a perfect example. Welfare was a government program which provided support for those unable to support themselves. However, as explained and examined by Blank the program was deeply flawed and not very useful. Blank made it clear that single household families specifically those led by single mothers, are the ones in dire need of welfare yet more than 69% of them remain unaided and out of work. Known as disadvantaged mothers these women who meet all these requirements for the program, no longer qualify. Reasons behind it include their inability to find a job within sixty months, while attending all required welfare programs and caring for their children. It's very difficult for these women to find a job and keeping one was even greater challenge. Finding childcare was very difficult, along with having to take days off in case the child gets sick; both of which result in missing days of work, which can lead to one losing their job. Having to constantly care for young children, and the home, while working as a single mother is not

For instance, in the source “Cons of Welfare” by Angus Koolbreeze argues, “Instead of continuing to seek a job, or perhaps taking steps toward entrepreneurship, the individual will look forward to receiving that unemployment benefit check every two weeks”. Tons of people do not work and just rely on the government to pay their rent, and food. Many of them just have kids and the more kids you have the more government money you get. Moreover, in the source, “List of Pros and Cons”, by Anonymous argues, “When people are allowed to receive money while they are out of work, it can create a feeling of dependence. Less motivated workers may grow used to getting a check for doing nothing and wish to prolong the process for as long as possible. The longer a person stays out of work, the more their skills will decline and deteriorate.” People become dependent on the system and they will not try to make themselves independent. They just rely on this check, because it's easy money. Therefore, welfare should be given for a limited amount of

There were approximately 45.3 million people in poverty in 2013. This number went up 37.3 million since 2007. (DeNavas-Walt 2014, p. 12). The number of poor individuals is the largest it has been in the 52 years. In Ruth Sidel essay “Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America”, she talks about the public misunderstandings about America's poor society. Women should be helped equally, but Sidel does not focus enough on women helping themselves. Sidel assumes that being poor just unexpectedly happens to the female population. In the reading she uses real life stories of women. One reoccurring theme is that the men in their life left them or fail to help them out with the children. Poverty includes more than single women with children. People that are elderly and can’t work is included, disabled and handicapped veterans or people in the army are included. Women make up some of the poverty population, but men makes up the other part. In 2013, there were 14,704,900 poor women and 10,990,100 poor men according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Poverty isn’t just surrounded around women; men and children are included.

Linda Tirado, author of Hand to Mouth Living in Bootstrap America, tells her story of what it’s like to be working poor in America, as well as what poverty is truly like on many levels. With a thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses her journey from lower class, to sometimes middle class, to poor, and everything in between. Throughout the read, Tirado goes on to reveal why poor people make the decisions they do in a very powerful way.

When someone thinks of the poor they instantly imagine a homeless man sleeping in a cardboard box or the nearest garbage can, but the working poor especially in the inner-city is commonly overlooked by society. However the working poor, in this case the working poor in the inner-city, are people advancing to try and make their lives better. They are taking minimum wage jobs so that they can barely afford a roof over their heads. Within Katherine Newman?s novel No Shame In My Game, she studies the working poor in the inner-city to draw conclusions about how to help them and dispute common stereotypes and the images people commonly view. Newman?s conclusions along with the

By doing this it regulates the suggested amount of money to be given out but placed restrictions upon on how one may utilize those resources. By the government using the word ignorant, it feels that if you have a job or no job or limited amount of resources coming into the household, it means that at some point you were incapable of maintaining a well-balanced lifestyle for yourself. Despite our country’s wishes, the picture of welfare paints a face of the minority woman.

Many people assume that people receiving welfare are “lazy” or “undeserving” and tend to associate

For example, in the ABC news clip the segment featured David Muir and a young man named Chris. Chris was poor, his father was unemployed and his mother worked as a teacher’s aide. The government draws the poverty line at under 22,000 per year for a family of four. Based on Chris’s circumstances, by government definition he is living in poverty. However, if we assessed his amenities he did not appear to be poor. That is a misleading perspective of what it is to live in poverty. There was no mention of Chris’s education, only the statement he made to Muir when reviling the contents of his refrigerator. Chris stated, “That’s another reason why I like going to school; I get food there.” Muir replied, “Ah…that’s what keeps you going” (ABC news). I was a bit twinge by Muir’s response, to imply that Chris’s motives for continuing his education was based on his free and reduced status. Yet, Muir’s response is typical of the mainstream opinion of poverty. At least Chris had a refrigerator. However, there was no mention of how his overworked mother treated him after a long day. Unfortunately, socioemotional factors often go undiscussed when talking about poverty and child development, however, these factors have the greatest impact on child development. The mainstream wants our primary focus to be on owning tangible items not the quality of basic needs, like education,

For example, one of the biggest problem with welfare is people tend to get lazy and unmotivated to look for work. According to the studies, the United States spent 973 billion dollars in 2012. When welfare act expired in 1996 and it was rewritten, its main purpose was to add a work requirement to the equation. A person was required to work or at least be looking for work so welfare wouldn’t become a way of life (Feulner, 2012). However as the work requirement decreased and work is not mandatory anymore more people are taking advantage of welfare. This system really hurts the taxpayers. “Welfare system makes fool of those who work hard” (Bluey, 2012). In addition, the welfare cost is constantly rising. For instance, government spends $1.33 for every $1 we spend on welfare. It is estimated that the welfare spending is going to rise by 2022 and the ratio will be $2.33 to $1. As more and more people are constantly getting on welfare, it raises the question if people really need

About a decade ago my mother, sisters, and I had lived alone in a small apartment. Our meals consisted of frozen beans, rice, and occasional food given to us by our elderly neighbor, Brenda Gibson. Mrs.Gibson was an extraordinary woman who’d babysit my sisters and I while our mother worked the late night shifts at the local senior center. My mother had no choice, her regular shifts could only cover one-fourth of the bills, and because she spent her days working she never had time to spend with her growing daughters. I did not know it at the time, but my family was being mangled by the ice cold fingers of poverty, digging itself deep into our bones, and trying to suck out our happiness, a scene lived by many other families in our neighborhood. Although my family made it out alright, a question remains regarding the rest of America and the future of it’s struggling families. What are the characteristics of children experiencing poverty in America and how do their characteristics affect and influence their life choices? Not only was this question influenced by my own experience but also by “A Place at the Table,” a documentary directed by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush, explaining and showing the connection between poverty and the economy.

          There are essentially two sides that exist about the issue of welfare. There are those that support it, who are typically democrats, and those that oppose it, typically republicans. The main source of reasons why people are opposed to this system is that it is evident that people become dependent on it and abuse it. Andre Bauer, who was the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, was a republican that clearly demonstrated the typical view of republicans on the issue of welfare by comparing those on welfare to stray cats. He said, “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed.” Bauer is generally saying that those who are raised on welfare reproduce and teach their offspring to do what they did. The example of stray cats was used because people who have fed them know that the numbers that come to get fed grow at a fairly fast rate. What Bauer is saying about the poor is that they will get everything that they can get from the government and pass on what they are

They are often seen as “stupid” or “lazy” etc. because of their inability to find work. Kids get made fun of at school for being poor, or not having the newest things, parents of the kids are ridiculed and seen as bad parents for not being able to provide above and beyond what their kid needs. “Poverty and discrimination are linked. Discrimination based on ethnicity, race or gender directly influences economic opportunity through a complex set of institutional effects in families, schools and work settings.” www.psysr.org (psysr poverty and discrimination pages). Poverty stricken families are discriminated against all the time, and in many different ways. This shows how unfair society is against people who struggle economically. This is because people who are poor are looked down upon like they do not matter, and are seen as charity cases. Discrimination against the poor, or people of different classes is called classism. “Classism is when someone is treated differently because of their class, or perceived class. Classism is similar in many ways to racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.” www.classism.org (classism/ about class). Classism is a very real thing in the world. It is easy for people to assume that someone is poor and treat them like they are less than them because of them being poor. This shows that the lower class can and are discriminated because of their socioeconomic status, they are ridiculed and cut down because of it. Sometimes classism flows from people on the street to even law enforcement. “Research indicates that people living in poverty are subjected increasingly and disproportionately to a range of administrative and legal policy measures that seek to criminalize, penalize, segregate, and surveil them because of their situation. Such measures include laws that explicitly target people living in poverty (e.g., laws prohibiting vagrancy, begging and panhandling), laws and

Being on welfare is a curse in disguise to single parent households. To be eligible for welfare you must have little to no household income, meaning that you can’t have a job that pays a living wage. Also, it does not raise up children who are on it, so it is essentially useless for them. Some people on welfare have said that it has trapped them into poverty and they have no independence, self-sufficiency, and it doesn’t promote an industry of ambition. It has also been said to be part of the poverty problem that is so apparent in The United States. Despite the fact that welfare was made to help impoverished people it hasn’t done so, especially for single parent households.

As some women in first world countries go out of the home to work, women from lower classes immigrant women from the third world perform the functions of childcare, ‘homemaking’, domestic tasks etc. these women who constitute the transnational labor of care have bad working conditions, few rights and opportunities or work satisfaction. As some upper class women break the glass ceiling, other women enter the market to perform the transnational labor of care, at low wages and bad conditions, without these women to perform the domestic tasks, to perform this transnational labor of care( example of Filipino migrant maids), other privileged women would not be able to leave the home to work and take up white collar occupations. Thus some women

    In order to help the impoverished, we need to revise the welfare system.  As it stands, welfare promotes apathy among the individuals that take advantage of it. As is stated in an article by Robert Rector and Jennifer Marshall, the goal of the welfare system has never been to