Should the federal government maintain the social safety net for all of its citizens? One in seven Americans receive food stamps, a number that's up sharply since the financial crisis. Most experts agree unemployment and underemployment have contributed to the number of people in need of food assistance. The government should stop expanding food stamps because of many reasons which are people are so dependent on the government, there is a lot of fraud that goes on while receiving food stamps, and that the government is spending way too much money on the poor while other things can help them get back on their feet. Some people may argue that access to food stamps is essential for needy families.
Ever since 2005 when chefs highlighted the poor nutritional value of school dinners across the country, many parents have been understandably confused about what is best for their child. Some have even opted out of school dinners altogether and provide their child with a packed lunch or allow them to go home for lunch. Is it possible, however, that in this they are completely misguided. We all know that young children need the right balance of nutritious food to grow and develop. Some parents think that home-prepared packed lunches are healthier than school dinners because they can control the contents.
It has the ability to connect people in a way that some other methods cannot. What is Malnutrition? Though malnutrition is inevitable, many countries are still hit hard by it due to a corrupted government, leaving many parts of the country to have insufficient funding for farming to provide the population with food. Drought is also a huge contribution to malnutrition. Even though some countries are not lacking farm land or water to grow food, malnutrition occurs simply due to the lack of education on nutrition and healthy eating.
To solve this market failure, government intervention seems to be the only feasible solution so far. The government can either subsidize or ban unpaid internships. However, subsidy is not reasonable because based on cost-benefit analysis. It costs the government too much to solve this market failure. On the other hand, banning unpaid internship opportunities is not effective because if business could not afford to provide internships, young graduates cannot gain experiences and provide positive externalities to the society.
Fruits, vegetables, unprocessed foods, organic, and lean meats are all expensive. When you don’t have much money to spend to feed yourself and your family, you are looking at ways to buy the most money for your dollar, not the healthiest foods for your dollar. Unfortunately a bag of carrots doesn’t look as appealing as a bag of chips, most children would rather eat chips as well, and when you can’t buy much food you don’t want to have your children waste any, so you’re going to buy something they will eat. Foods that are highly processed, foods that don’t expire quickly, and most foods that are bought in bulk for a low price, are poor choices of food, and these are the foods that will lead to unhealthy bodies. Sugars, starches, sodium, everything that is in a processed food, just helps fat accumulate on the body, and in the arteries.
Second, the people who really need it like a single mother or father, maybe even a family where 1 or both parents got laid off and can’t support their family, are rejected because they supposedly make enough to support everyone when they don’t. I know this because my parents knew these people and it is very hard for a family in this economy to get rejected support. Third of all, people go to get food stamps and section 8 support but they lie about stuff on their application just to get it. Half of the people that do have government support and very well capable of getting a job and supporting themselves but they don’t want to. So when you really think about is Government support good or bad?
Unfortunately, student and parents rely on these lunches because they do not have the income to be able to afford either full-priced or homemade lunches. The only foreseeable way for American students to receive healthier lunches in their school cafeterias is if someone can create a solution to the cost problems. To fully understand the cost problem behind all of this, one must first understand that processed and pre-made foods are much less expensive than healthier, homemade alternatives. For example, if someone was going to make a lasagna dinner for their family they would be much more likely to want homemade lasagna because homemade is always better tasting and also healthier than pre-made frozen lasagna. However, when looking at the cost of both options,
McDonald’s has realized the importance of getting their food to the public fast, with that being said this organization has accumulated 1.8 million employees. This is where some of the ethical issues come in to play as a global organization. Child labor laws and the limit of hours that people are able to work vary greatly from country to country. While McDonald’s wants to profit from their service to the public, they do not want to profit at the suffering of their employees working too much or in horrible conditions. In America we have child labor laws in place to ensure that employees under the age of 17 years old are not working too many hours in a row or in an overall week.
Government assistance designed to help the working or out of work American has become a form of income to some families. This misuse of these programs is infuriating. As fellow Americans and tax payers this is terrifying. The thought of someone who cannot afford children they already have becoming pregnant and having more children they cannot afford is unbearable. Some of these programs are SNAP(food stamps), government provided health care, utility assistance, and even checks from the government to help pay for your children.
Pollution is unrestricted. The government does not address countless other environmental problems in their country. Usually, creating and enforcing environmental regulations would be economically disastrous for a poor country. The poor people in these Third World Countries are forced to choose between buying food for their family to eat or living in a clean, healthy environment. Since they are poor, they have to choose food for their family to eat.