Sometimes even having that may not get you a good enough job to provide for your family. The way prices are for things now a day it’s hard for anyone to provide for their family living in poverty would only make things worse. I feel for the people who may not be able to read or write. It makes me want to help them because those are basic skills to even get a job in general and without those that’s not possible to obtain a job. The fact that they say if you grow up in poverty you are more than likely to stay in poverty when you get older makes me feel for them even more because that means the kids that grow up may not know the difference and may grow up thinking that’s how they are supposed to live, unless they have friends that are in the middle class or above they may never know what it’s like to not be in poverty.
Reforming the Welfare System The welfare system as we know it is broken. It is unfair to the recipients themselves, to those who need it and do not receive it, and to those taxpayers who struggle in middle class helping to pay for it all. In many cases, the system itself keeps people in poverty. The uneducated are not given the necessary resources to get them out of the system and no requirements are in place to prevent generations of families from staying in the welfare cycle. One reason the welfare system should be reformed is because of inequalities.
Welfare is receiving without having to earn what has been given. This causes people to lose respect for their belonging because they didn’t have to work hard to get them, and people on welfare will not respect others belongings because they will not understand that they had to work to get their possessions. People on welfare lose a lot if not all the values that society holds to be the foundation of the working man’s way of life. They lose their sense of right and wrong and this is not the intended purpose of welfare. People on welfare somehow have a sense of entitlement that is extremely unrealistic.
I always wanted to go to workwith him. I never thought about going to work just to make a living, but it did make it a little clearer for me to understand. My father would let me know that I will be out on my own one day, and in order to live life comfortably I will have to work to earn a living. I now realize what Russell Baker meant in his quote “go to work and make a living.” There are so many children out there that are clueless about work in America. Most don’t understand what their parents work for.
This article was very informative about the statistics of Fathers who are not getting the opportunity to help in the care of their children because they are having to work to pay the many bills of having a disabled child. The author states that 84% of fathers feel financial pressure are are forced to work long hours. They say that they keep their disabled children a secret because they feel as though they are treated differently. They also think that Mothers are treated differentl y at groups and fathers are excluded in the group settings. They feel more confident in caring for their chidren at their home but not outside of their comfort zone.
The welfare system tends to encourage wastefulness and discourage productivity. More and more people look to welfare in order to help make a living but some are not using it the accurate way. The government should not have to take care of people who are doing nothing with their life but abusing the system. Welfare should help the people get on their feet. Just because you’re on welfare doesn’t mean that you don’t have to work and can just stay at home and do nothing.
The child benefit act also affects the institution of family. A child has two parents and if the parents are separated then the parent who takes care of the child full time receives payment from the government for the child’s care. This is almost an encouragement of couples with children to separate because they will receive more money if they do. In some cases this act is the cause of breakups because sometimes people care more about the money than they do about each other
The recommended amount of support from welfare she receives is determined by how much she makes and if she is unwed. But because of this fact, she is more likely to have less expenses and more money in her pocket to spend. She will have fewer expenses than a married woman with a job paying $70,000, and only a slightly lower living standard. (Pethokoukis) This has become a controversy for the struggling middle class. Not all of those eligible for federal or state support exploit this system, but many do.
The welfare system in the United States needs to change. Perhaps the reason that so many people get and stay on welfare is that it is the best thing economically for them and their family, but welfare is being abused because the rules are so lax. While it does help some people who cannot work for true medical reasons, others who are not in need take advantage it. The welfare system has made people dishonest and lazy, robbed people of motivation, and encouraged carelessness in a lot of individuals. In the United States, welfare recipients can receive welfare their whole lives by cheating the system, whereas individuals who have worked their whole life and get laid off receive unemployment for only one year.
It makes no sense some of the things the US spends money on when we have children living in extreme poverty. It is time to take care of our own people and stop worrying about fighting another nations battles spending money protect them instead of protecting our children. Child poverty is expensive and would be cheaper for us to eliminate it by improving wages for families to make a better