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    those issues include social welfare, immigration or even environmental issues. Congress receives numerous issues on public polices every day, but they cannot handle and solve every issues that comes across their daily agenda, nor can they satisfy every person in this country. Congress prioritizes on those issues that are more important and relevant to find a probable solution too. A growing issue we see that in today’s society are issues in the social welfare system. Social Welfare has so many issues

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    The U.S. reform effort suggests that the social welfare policy is most efficient at reducing poverty. “Federally funded and governed US welfare began in the 1930’s during the Great Depression.” [1] “A main goal of these reforms is to reduce the number of individuals or families’ dependent on government assistance and to assist the recipients in their efforts to become self-sufficient.” [2] Welfare was intended as a way to help people through a rough spot and are in greater need. It is for families

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    creates social conflict and hinders the ability of individuals and communities from achieving their full potential (Blau, 2010). There are several causes for the rise of inequality in the United States, such as our public education system, the philosophy of the underserving poor, lack of affordable housing, the myth of the culture of poverty, and oppression. All of these factors contribute to the rise of inequality in the United States and have significant implications for the field of social work and

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    The social welfare system in the United States is defined through several different sectors of government and generally comes along with a negative stigma. When people hear about social welfare they generally tend to think about the government assistance programs, and not the other programs such as tax credits or “social insurance” (Tussing 1974). This paper aims to explain and describe the social welfare programs, as well as show how widespread social welfare is. Midgley defines social welfare

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    There are many questions people ask about social welfare programs. Who is receiving these benefits? Are the people receiving these benefits abusing the system? What portion of our tax dollars are going into these programs? What are the long term effects of these programs? What about the non working part of the population? According to the Social Work Degree Center, some of the most common misconceptions of social welfare programs are that people in poverty are simply just lazy and unmotivated, that

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    The topic of this paper is to shed light on the issue of welfare. The original purpose and intent for social welfare was to temporarily ease the plight of the poor at no cost to the middle and upper class. Overtime, it has become a burden America’s taxpayers have had to unrightfully carry. Welfare has been reformed in the past, but many still believe it is a failing program. Citizens and non citizens are both taking advantage of the program that was intended to help. Even after multiple reformations

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    Social Commentary Entry Slip I could easily compare my social commentary essay—discussing the topic of welfare— to a Thursday. This essay was the most time consuming and by far gave me the most anxiety. Thursday gives me the same emotions. It is only one day away from Friday, which means the only thing on my mind is the weekend. As much as I want to slack off like some of the Americans on welfare, the school atmosphere doesn’t allow me to, so I am forced to feel the anxiety of school, rather than

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    Social welfare is the promotion and distribution of material and physical aid by the government for citizens in need. A lot of people think just because you are on Welfare that you’re automatically living off the government but that’s not true, they think you’re too lazy to get a job, but that’s not true at all. I was once on Welfare when I had my little girl when I was living with my grandmother. I had Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, and Family first for they both of us. I had to get on Welfare to get

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    Welfare Fraud is one of the darker sides of the field of social work. A crime in which an individual amasses state and/or government benefits by intentionally giving false information about their financial status and situation it is essentially an abuse of a service offered in times of need. Welfare fraud is committed every second of everyday. Disability is where a person that has been seriously injured (Spinal Injury) or any type of injury that has put you in the position to where you cannot work

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    There is much controversy on whether social welfare programs truly assist those in need to become more self-reliant or just make them more reliant and dependent on the government for support. Many Americans are under the misguided belief that all of their hard earned money is handed out to those who are simply too lazy to work. While this statement is certainly untrue, the age old question about the effectiveness of welfare weighs heavy on the minds of many. The following is going to convince and

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