Displaced Homemakers Reinvestment Act Case Study

On February 17, 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was instated. This fiscal plan was created to stabilize the economy while it was spiraling down out of control. At the time, the United States was experiencing many economic problems and was very close to a collapse. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was created by Barack Obama to save 900,000 to 2.3 million jobs. The plan asked for 800 billion dollars but had to be approved by congress first. This plan tried to end the breakdown of the economy and boost it back up to its normal level of performance if not better.

Women for years have been automatically given the role of the domestic housewife, where their only job is to cook, clean, and take care of the children. Men have usually taken the primary responsibility for economic support and contact with the rest of society, while women have traditionally taken the role of providing love, nurturing, emotional support, and maintenance of the home. However, in today’s society women over the age of sixteen work outside of the home, and there are more single parent households that are headed by women than at any other time in the history of the United States (Thompson 301.)

As boundaries are pushed, the standards of what it means to be an adult are changing. One factor that is keeping our young adults from becoming functioning members of society is their lack of independence. In Eve Tushnet’s “You Can Go Home Again,” a 2008 study showed that out of those who have returned home or those who never left the nest, “few contributed financially to the household or [do] chores”(par. 5). If the leaders of our future generations refuse to contribute to their homes, what can they contribute to the betterment of our society? There is a growing stigma around adults who live with their parents yet these consequences are not proving any prevention, and those who ignore the reputation are being described as having “failed to launch,” (par. 4). The numbers of those adults are steadily rising. As less emphasis is placed upon the value of responsibilities, adults feel that they are given the excuse to move back home after college or at least find a way to depend upon their parents again. An article by Karen L. Fingerman and Frank F. Furstenberg entitled "You Can Go Home Again," argues for a recent study depicting that almost 70 percent of parents still provide some type of “practical assistance” to their children every month. This specific reliance teaches adolescents that they will never have to work to their maximum potential as their parents will never truly stop cleaning up their mess. While it must be considered that higher satisfaction and clearer life goals have been reported amongst those receiving assistance (par. 3), this gives leeway to indolence and overdependence, essentially teaching our children that effort is not necessary so long as you are

She recalls the disadvantages that come with the application process as well as waiting to hear back after submitting job applications and drug test results. Overall, the application process is tedious and extremely costly. Whenever Ehrenreich plans on leaving her current job, she must make sure she already has her next job awaiting her in order to never go a day without making money. In her experiences, Ehrenreich finds that it can take hours to drive to numerous places and fill out applications. She also discovers that many low-wage jobs require you to take a drug test before you can start working. In her evaluation, she notes that in addition to the cost of one’s time, there is gas money to consider as well as the price of a babysitter if someone has children to care for. Her personal experience may not include supporting children, but she must take into consideration the possible situations that other low-wage workers are going through. The application process does not only take away valuable time, it actually creates additional costs that must be

How does this apply to the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act)? One connection is made to the ARRA based on the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) (Nash et al., 2012). The ARRA is trying to give support point to care information systems, which will aid doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to make the best medical decisions and circumvent making mistakes (Nash, Clarke, Skoufalos, & Horowitz, 2012). Furthermore, the ARRA HITECH agenda has encouraged many hospitals to put into place the computerized physician order entry or (CPOE) structures (Nash et al., 2012). The CPOE will “check a physician’s orders, alerting the user if a medication is ordered for a patient who is allergic, if a dosage is incorrect, if there are potential

According to statistics, employment in never married mothers increased nearly 50%, single mothers who HS dropouts increased by 2/3, young single mothers nearly doubled (Karger et al., 2007). But the problem is, are these jobs sufficient enough to get these people out of poverty? There are issues with employment of individuals. These issues include a lack of work experience and education as well as poor health (Urban Institute, 2014). Needing to work also impacts parent(s) and their duties for their children because of long hours, stressful commutes, ad stressful working conditions. These types of stress lead kids to take on the responsibilities of their parents to take care of their younger siblings (Boscia, 2010).

According to Bates & Robb (2015), the history of subprime mortgage lending dates back to the early 1970's when the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) passed. The CRA change the way federally chartered banks loan money in inner-city communities to primarily low income and minority consumers (Schuchter, & Jutte, 2014). The intent of the CRA was not to prevent the financial crisis; however, it did play a role in the mortgage crisis. The original indictment of the statute, however, it failed to insulate low- and moderate-income communities from the harshest impacts of the crisis (Brescia, 2014). The CRA legislation purpose is to generate a response to lending activities that occurred primarily in urban communities, but it also applies to depository

Although these basic definitions are accurate, they are not fully complete. Currently, displaced homemakers also include individuals who are as young as 22 years old, women in poverty who lose public assistance, which is their main income, and women whose husbands are disabled and therefore unable to work (POPULATION AND NEEDS OF DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS). Also, for women who leave the workforce due to child birth, when seeking a job to return to, many of their job skills depreciate as they remain absent. Therefore, many of the women are in need of retraining to learn new skills (Greer, 2013). Additionally, a woman whose vocational self-efficacy and ability to work are influenced both by domestic violence and by situational barriers and supports, they can target vocational and personal self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and perceived obstacles and supports in order to facilitate career exploration, career interests, and career goals that fit their specific needs. Unfortunately, for battered women, there are limitations to the amount of available situations that increase job-related self-efficacy (Morris, Shoffner, Newsome, 2009). Therefore, the definition

As a single mother who became a divorcee in the year of 2001, I found myself with no working skills and no career prospects. My ex-husband suffered from substance abuse

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) and employment goes hand in hand when dealing with low-income families. When Congress introduced the block grant in the late nineties to fund the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, it was designed to help low income families. Statistics shows that the number of low income families has been on the rise for a while. Even with the program’s increase of cash benefits, families are struggling to make ends meet. This program has taken some major hits from the state and federal government, human service professionals and its participants. Is the TANF program right for low income families? Does the program need to be revamped? This paper provides the answer to both questions along with history information, purpose of programs, eligibility qualifications, federal guidelines and literature reviews.

For a single mother, the stability and security of Corporate America would seem like a safe haven that one would never risk leaving. But for author, speaker, and information technology expert Kiah L. Graham, the love she had for her young daughter gave her a burning desire to take that risk and see what success looked like beyond the comforts of big business. Her goal was to be able to not just financially support her daughter, but to also have the flexibility in fully supporting their academic and extracurricular pursuits. So, she took a leap and never looked backed taking with her a passion to build a life and a business that would make her daughter proud, and serve as example that women can do anything they set their minds to. As a result

Another cause for the wage gap is the fact that women leave the workforce or cut down their hours to take care of their family and household responsibilities. In The Second Shift, the Holt family is introduced. Nancy Holt a social worker with a masters degree reduces her full time job to part time in order to better accommodate all her household responsibilities which include raising her son, cooking, and cleaning. She even goes on to say, “I figure when I’m at office from eight to one, and when I come home and take care of Joey and make dinner at five,” regarding her new part-time schedule (Hochschild 49). The idea that women need to take pay cuts or lower paying part-time jobs strikes a deeper societal chord. It conveys that women have the

“The Second Shift” by Arlie Russell Hochschild sheds light on the fact that America is stuck in a perpetual loop, unable to change its societal gender expectations. Substantial progress has been made when it comes to women in the workplace, but that same progress is lacking when it comes to a woman’s work within the home. When looking at employed women the term “second shift” can be brought to the forefront. The expression “second shift” refers to the tasks done around the house after the initial work hours are through. Hochschild critiques how the American career system treats the “second shift”; she makes it clear that the working American society has yet to take the additional shift into consideration due to the already implemented

A specific example of a policy that helped the economic activity was the Recovery Act and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009. The short-term gain was evident by keeping jobs and corporations afloat as indicated the by 13% increase in GDP. The slope of the GDP growth after the ARRA money started to flow increased (CDN, 2012). The $787 billion dollar bill ultimately comes back to burden the taxpayers and hinders new economic growth. Perhaps, if the government did not bail out the financial institutions, new smaller and more innovative institutions would have emerged. After all, a good market place has many players, which helps the supply and demand reach equilibrium.

Since before I can remember, I have been trained by my parents how to be the “perfect housewife.” I was taught how to cook, clean, sew, and after my youngest brother was born, to care for a child. My parents’ training made me feel as if their only dream for me was to marry me off and see me as “the perfect housewife.” However, I have much bigger dreams for myself; I want to break our culture’s notion that all girls are only meant to work in the home. Beginning seven years ago, my family sponsors many immigrant families, who my parents have house, clothe, and feed for six months or more at a time, until they get settled into their new lives in America.