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    The welfare state in Britain as we know it today did not exist, looking back through the 18th and 19th Centuries many of the social welfare benefits that are available to Britain’s today were not even imaginable to the people at that time. Today much of the help that is available to those in the margins of society is seen as an obligation for the state to correct. However in the Elizabethan Era the attitudes towards welfare and the poor were very negative and unsympathetic. In this essay I will be

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    The US welfare system started back in the 1930’s when the great depression was going on. In 2012 more than 30 percent of households headed by an immigrant. The people who are mainly on welfare are the people who are sick and disabled and have little income, a big family or who come from out of the country. The government provides each state with their own welfare programs called temporary assistance for needy families (TANF). There are many different types of welfare programs in the US like, heath

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    Social Welfare Policy Social Welfare Policy Analysis Eric Dean University of Arkansas Introduction Several states have recently begun to enact legislation that requires welfare recipients to submit to drug tests before they are eligible to receive any public assistance. The purpose of mandatory drug testing is to prevent the potential abuse of taxpayer money, help individuals with drug problems, and ensure that public money is not subsidizing drug habits (Wincup, 2014). While these

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    Essay Welfare-To-Work: Welfare Programming

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    a horse to water but, if you don’t teach him to read, he won’t know its poison. This is exactly how the current welfare programs in the United States are run. The current Welfare Reform is failing due to Political indulgence in statistics, focusing on the percentage of individuals attaining employment instead of the quality of employee and employment. In order to be successful Welfare Reform must contain vocational education with proper job placement and fair sanctions on recipients. The numbers

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    The Benefits Of Welfare

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    Has Welfare actually helped poverty, or has it just made it worse? Block grants are transferring federal funding to the state government, for the state to decide on the amount of poverty programs while the federal government decides the funding amount. Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a benefit that rises with earnings until it reaches a plateau, then slowly spreads out as earnings continue to rise (Murry 171). Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) allows People in need are eligible for

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    Welfare Reform

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    Welfare is a form of public aid where the citizens are provided with a minimal level of social support and well-being. In developed countries, such as the United States of America, welfare is mainly offered by the government, other providers include religious groups, informal social groups, charities, and inter-governmental organizations. The politics of welfare is a governmental concept where the state plays a major role in protecting and promoting the social and the economic well-being of its citizens

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    Education and Welfare

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    So why is it that the collectors of welfare and public aid are statistically the ones with the least amount of education? Within this paper I plan to address this issue and those that contribute to education, or lack there of, for welfare recipients. I feel this issue has a great deal to do with race, gender and lack of equality in all aspects of public policy. Let us start at the beginning. Most women on welfare were raised in homes that collected welfare. This is the first major issue. Unfortunately

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    Welfare Abuse in America The welfare systems are based on the principle of public responsibility on equitable wealth distribution and equality of opportunities to citizens who are unable to afford minimal levels of quality and good life, through provision of universal education programs, health care and subsidised housing. In most of the states, welfare systems are not used in the right manner they are intended to. Although the systems are meant to reduce the poverty level and at least assists

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    The Welfare System

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    we going to survive? How are we going to provide for our family? How are we going to keep having food at our table or even a place to live in? In many situations, people turn to the government for welfare support. The idea behind the welfare system is to help those in need of assistance. Three main welfare programs that people have acquired and are a concern to the population are: TANF, unemployment insurance and social security. TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) is a program that the

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    Americans all across the nation have become blind to the fact that the welfare system has created a sense of comfortable distress amongst them; Americans feel safe with knowing that they have benefits to turn to when in need but are also distraught about the actions and well-beings of the welfare system in future times because they are so comfortable with the system. With so many bad effects outweighing the good effects that welfare programs bring to the table, there is a need to say that these programs

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