Welfare In The United States

TANF is a program to provide cash assistance to those with little to no income. Yet, food stamps are a program to provide families with an income to purchase only food for their home. Food stamps have their restriction on certain food items on the other hand Temporary Assistance for a Needy family (TANF) doesn’t have any restriction on what the money is use for. In addition, there is a child support program. The child support program is to provide families with child care placement assistance which will help parents have the time to work. The program helps pay for any partial or for completely any fees depending on the family’s income. Furthermore, there is also a program that helps family pay for their basic utilities. For example, water, heat, gas etc… this program is known as energy or utility assistance. Another well know program is medical assistance. This program provides families who don’t have sufficient money to pay for medical insurance. Medicare covers for regular checkups, prescription medicine, dental care, and eye care.

WIC program target low-income populations who are exposed to nutritional risks. Among these, women, infants and small children considered to be most at risk. The program, therefore, intends to cater for pregnant women, up to the end of the pregnancy period, or up to 6 weeks after birth, breastfeeding women up to one year after birth, infants to their first birthday, and children till they reach five years of age. Through this policy, their health is safeguarded facilitating for a healthy normal life to the newborn. Among the benefits accrued by the beneficiaries are supplemental nutritious food, nutritional counseling and education, and access to other health,

Examining welfare in the United States it always seems to be a complex and controversial subject. Welfare is directed at various aspects of public policy such as economics, education/training, culture diversity, taxation, incentives, actualization as well as the actual role of the government. The paper will commence by briefly discussing the idea of state welfare system, the origin, development, purpose, and specific view on the way welfare system has undergone changes from the error of Depression. This therefore brings us to the importance of having knowledge on the implication of the 1988 Family Support Act (FSA), the attitude change and policy concerning welfare, as well as the most recent way of focusing to the finding methods of training, retraining or educating individuals in welfare for them to get gainful employment especially those who move to the corporate world.

Over the years there has been an aid called “welfare” that helps struggling people by offering financial support. Welfare is a federally funded program that helps citizens that are in financial trouble, with the intention of being a sort of “stand in” for income until a person is able to get back on their feet and find a new source of employment. This program started back in 1930’s as a response to the financial hit many people with a family took as a result of the Great Depression. There are multiple types of welfare that give aid to specific aspects of a person’s life, which include health care, food stamps, childcare assistance, unemployment, housing care assistance, and cash aid. When welfare became popular, it created controversy

During President Roosevelt’s term his main concern was creating jobs and reducing the unemployment rate. Roosevelt was also very concerned in helping poor families, especially children in the United States, so in 1935 the program as we know today welfare was created. What exactly is welfare? Welfare is a program that helps families with low incomes receive assistance for a temporary time. One of the programs is TANF which is Temporary Aid to help Needy Families is the largest federal cash federal program in the nation. This new program replaced the original program that was created in 1935 called (AFDC). Why was there this change? The new welfare program (TANF) has stricter requirements than the previous program. This change made it so not everyone can be eligible for welfare benefits. In the past, people were taking advantage of the program, and had fewer incentives to find work. Welfare is a great program and it assists many people in need, but it is a burden to many Americans who are barely getting by, and don’t qualify for welfare benefits. How is Welfare paid, and who is receiving this benefits?

"Welfare 's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence." Ronald Reagan said this statement on January of 1970 when the "Los Angeles Times" interviewed him (Williamson). Federal government funded welfare in the United States started in the 1930s during the Great Depression. Because of the vast numbers of people out of work and with insufficient funds to buy food for their families, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a program to give money to state governments for the purpose of making jobs so that unemployed people could work (Bill). This start of federal aid was the beginning of what we know welfare to be today. This paper will show whether or not welfare works in our society, whether or not the U.S. should reform it, and if this nation should even have welfare for those who cannot work.

Most of these families and individuals now are in programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, also known as welfare(National Coalition,2009), Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. These programs provide cash, health care benefits and food for these families and most individuals helping the individuals or families to get back on their feet although some will get denied for such help.

In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act which, among other things, provided for the financial, medical, and material needs of the poor (Komisar 125,128). Since then, there have many additions and reforms to the bill, none of which has served to quell the controversy surrounding the effectiveness of the welfare system in the United States. The main concerns of the distribution of welfare dollars and resources can be answered by the questions ?Who gets assistance?? and ?How much do they receive??. The U.S. welfare system is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, which attempts to answer these questions through a system of minimum incomes, government-calculated poverty levels, number of children, health problems, and many other criteria. This complicated system leads to one of the critiques of the welfare system?that it is too large and inefficient. President Lyndon Johnson declared a ?War on Poverty? in 1964 designed to alleviate the burden of the poor and established the Food Stamp program the next year (Patterson 139). In 1996, a major welfare reform bill was passed that placed time limits on welfare assistance, required able participants to actively seek employment, and implemented additional services for the needy (Patterson 217).

When the United States of America first began, there were small villages with men and women of varying degrees of wealth. Like any society, there were people who had little money and poor living conditions while others were wealthy. In the colonies of the new world, the church and the neighbors of those in poverty helped provide food and clothing, while also finding ways to improve their daily lives. These acts of kindness were an enormous help to the poor but sadly became less effective to those individuals as the population of the colonies increased along with the number of those in poverty. Soon seeing the streets filled with the poor the government of this new country decided that an improved method of help should be put into effect:

WIC had been around since the 70’s and even then was very much about the health of mothers and their children. “1972: WIC was piloted as a supplemental food program aimed at improving the health of pregnant mothers, infants and children in response to growing concern over malnutrition among many poverty-stricken mothers and young children.” (WIC Program Overview and History | National WIC Association). The US Department of Agriculture is in charge of WIC, “WIC is a public health nutrition program under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Agriculture”. (WIC Program Overview and History | National WIC Association). The United States Department of Agriculture also funds WIC.WIC was created because of poverty and how families were living. People were starving and couldn’t afford to get food. “WIC was created in 1974 as a response to the realization that hunger and poverty were widespread in this country and that inadequate nutrition poses real dangers to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children.” (WIC (Women, Infants and Children) « Food

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Welfare is financial aid given to those in need of assistance. There are many reasons one could need welfare such as a disability, illness, or in the case of the new poor, (those who have never been poor before) job loss due to economic recessions. (Hurst 2013.) Sometimes the ones who should receive benefits are denied and money is granted to the non-poor. Businesses are also able to have access to government-aid. Phantom welfare, or “corporate welfare” is defined as any federal spending program that provides payments or unique benefits and advantages to specific companies or industries. (S.S. 2007) This loose definition includes payments like grants and direct subsidies to companies. Sometimes there are cash payments made to farmers

The welfare system first came into action during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unemployed citizens needed federal assistance to escape the reality of severe poverty. The welfare system supplies families with services such as: food stamps, medicaid, and housing among others. The welfare system has played a vital role in the US, in controlling the amount of poverty to a certain level. Sadly, the system has been abused and taken for granted by citizens across the country. The welfare system was previously controlled by the federal government until 1996; the federal government handed over the responsibility to the states in hope of reducing welfare abuse. However, this change has not prevented folks from scamming the system. The

What would happen if the government made changes to the welfare system? There are approximately 110,489,000 of Americans on welfare. Many people benefit from what the system has to offer: food stamps, housing, health insurance, day care, and unemployment. Taxpayers often argue that the individuals who benefit from the system, abuse the system; however, this is not entirely true. Many of the people who receive benefits really and truly need the help. Even though some people believe welfare should be reformed, welfare should not be reformed because 40% of single mothers are poor, some elderly people do not have a support system, and college students can not afford to take extra loans.

What is us welfare- welfare is financial support given to those in need, through any of the 80ish programs that are available the most popular are Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)