American poverty however, should not be portrayed this way, as hardly one percent of those 37 million classified as poor claim they live without enough food to be properly nourished (Rector 9). The poor of America do have a hard time getting by, but by the rest of the world's standard, America's poor population is living the luxury life. "When disaster strikes in the poor world [referring to the world's third world nations] - as it so regularly does- People do not loot and steal. They do not fire guns at rescue helicopters. They do not rob the hospitals of their drugs.
Women were another vulnerable group because they were always paid at a lower rate than men. There was no safety net for people who fell into poverty other than resorting to the ‘workhouse’ which had been established to deal with cases of extreme poverty in Trade unions had little power as the Taff Vale Incident of 1901 showed and Friendly Societies could only provide a limited amount of help. Attitudes to poverty in the early 20th century were quite unsympathetic many politicians from both the Liberal and Conservative party felt that poverty came from personal laziness. Both parties had an attitude of “laissez-faire” i.e. non interference from the government.
Poverty around the world is recognized and known by everyone but overlooked just as equally. People focus on the luxuries and expenses and don’t realize the help all this money would serve to the unfortunate thousands struggling to make ends meat. All the designer shoes and over priced handbags will eventually turn into last week’s fashion, but will sparing a child’s life be as simple to forget? In the article The Singer Solution To World Poverty, Peter Singer portrays many different hypothetical scenarios contrasting some people’s upfront selfishness to world poverty and other people’s disguised selfishness toward it. The author explains that many Americans, middle class, unknowingly refuse to aid the elimination toward poverty around
If you pump in millions of new workers seeking jobs, it decreases the amount of work available. Plus, the laws of economic supply and demand will push the wages down far from what they would be. Another con is that immigrants, especially the poorer ones, consume a high amount of government resources like health care, education, welfare, etc. without paying a corresponding high rate of taxes. Almost all immigrants will start out earning very low wages, and unless they get additional education or training, they will likely
I have to agree with this comment, only because it has been witnessed on a constant basis of fraud within the systems programs. But when Wallace asked “don’t you think, if you cut 700 billion in aid to the states, that some people are going to get hurt?” Romney stated “ by cutting welfare spending dramatically, I don’t think we hurt the poor. In the same way, I think cutting Medicaid spending by having it go to the states, run more efficiently with less fraud; I don’t think will hurt the people that depend on that program for their health care. There are many posters posted up of many participants convicted of welfare fraud; which included medical, food stamps, housing, childcare and aid. The sad part of this, is that the system has its flaws as well.
One of the myths are that people on welfare do not want to work when in fact, Women on welfare do work but normally obtain minimum wage. Statistics show that mothers on welfare held on average 1.7 jobs while almost half (44%) held two or more jobs. Another myth is that people who get on welfare never get off, 30% get off within two years permanently. Some of the problems that we face are that many of the people on welfare have a lack of education, which creates more unskilled workers. We live in a society where we say that everyone able to pull himself or herself up by there bootstrap and create the life that they want.
There was also nothing there for the old before that ether, they basically had to work until they died as they had no money otherwise or be sent to the poor house which was embarrassing. The act was passed as the old had to rely on their children who often couldn’t even pay for themselves and they were becoming a burden. You had to be 70 to receive a pension which was far too high as most of the people that needed it had died by then from not having a good standard of living. The age for being able to receive was far too high as people that needed the pension were too unhealthy to live that long anyway. If you were single you got five shillings a week and seven and a half if you were married.
The income guidelines are very strict for assistance and vary depending on which programs you are applying for and the size of your household. The basic eligibility rules for welfare are your income, after specified deductions, is below 100% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines ( “Should the House..”, 2013). Most people stay in these guidelines and requirements by working the bare minimum at minimum wage. Others do not keep a job for long, usually due to drug use, and jump back and forth between employment and welfare (McCollum, 2012). They do this in order to extend the time, or drag out the time they are eligible for assistance.
The lack of school material, clothes, or even living in terrible conditions can lead to the not reaching their full potential due to the lack of motivation. The government in 2012 released 3.5 billion dollars to The Native American Reservations, which for 350,000 people is equivalent to 1000 dollars (Volz, “$3.4B Indian Lawsuit Ends, Disbursements to Begin”). However, how far might this money go in a struggling household? The insufficient environment that Native Americans live in is nothing like we might find in any cities in the Northwest. The lack of motivation caused by years of not having a job and watching your family suffer in poverty is a condition that not too many of us are familiar with.
Jason Baker Eng-11-10 July, 29, 2010 Melissa Byrd Exam, Final Essay Welfare; The falling of America. Welfare once began as a way to save the over burdened American from complete and total loss of everything they had worked so hard to acquire or accomplish, but it has now become the largest and misused form of government support that now only serves to make people more dependent, and in turn damages society morally as a whole. Welfare has thus far in our history as a country only bred laziness. First, people on welfare; for the most part, do not have to work. All the government requires of people on welfare is to fill out a job application on a regular basis and then that person will be eligible to receive benefits.