Treasury? This paper delves into those issues and provides credible resources to ferret out the real facts. Not for people in poverty exclusively: After pointing out that the Reagan Administration's conservative agenda created an "historic shift" in welfare benefits, journalist Mimi Abramovitz reports that subsequent to the Reagan cuts social welfare programs in fact dole out more taxpayer money to "middle and upper classes" than to poor people (Abramovitz, 2001)
THREE: Two groups that lose from social welfare policies -- how and why. An article by Farah Ahmad and Sarah Iverson points out that notwithstanding that American women have made substantial gains over the last century, and have enjoyed additional social standing (voting rights, better pay and reproductive rights), the benefits of many achievements "…have not be equally shared" (Ahmad, et al
Rush Limbaugh recently made a very big deal out of those who get food stamps, as though most recipients were lazy or cheaters. TWO: Two groups that benefit from social welfare policies -- how and why Tax credits, certain deductions and "preferences" can also be seen as the government actually writing a check to affluent citizens (Lawler, 2013)
Writing in The New York Times, journalist Suzanne Mettler points out that factions of the American public are for some reason in denial as to their receipt of federal social benefits. A poll sited by Mettler shows that when 1,400 Americans were asked if they have ever received money "from a government social program" fifty-seven percent said they had not (Mettler, 1)
Why is this true? Institutional racism (against Latinas and African-American women) plays a role; also, women of color do not have the same educational or training opportunities and hence they are at risk and their lack of preparedness reduces their "purchasing power" (Ahmad, 4). Some voters are also potential losers in the social welfare milieu because low income people, the disabled, the elderly, minorities and young people tend to be disenfranchised by voter ID laws (Roos, 2012)
However, when the pollster (Cornell Survey Research Institute) specifically mentioned the programs in question (Social Security; unemployment insurance; home-mortgage-interest deduction; and student loans) some 94% of the same people that had denied using "a government social program" in fact had received funds from "at least one" (and on average, the "no" respondents had used four) (Mettler, 1). The Derek Thompson article in The Atlantic explains that "fully 55% of all Americans…have received benefits from one of…" the following: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, unemployment benefits and food stamps" (Thompson, 2012)
Social welfare may be defined as the explicit and implicit terms by which the state and its citizenry establish a network of relations with one another. (Blau & Abramovitz, 2003) Citizens may be said to owe the state certain things, like taxes, military service when called for, obedience to the law of the state, and in return the state provides them with everything from proper removal of their trash on a local level, social security payments on a federal level, and protection from insurgent powers in the form of community policing and a standing army
The act was later. What is the difference between being poor and being destitute? Being poor is a situation that you do not have the basic needs but you can still struggle to get some although it might not be enough or satisfy their needs (Karger & Stoesz 2010, p
The life of human beings was a struggle for existence. Currently, those who are able to continue to have higher education and get better jobs while the poor remain to be poor, as they cannot support themselves (Zastrow 2013, p
Which political philosophy from Chapter 1 in Karger and Stoesz best explains Senator Miller's proposal? Why? See the section under "The Welfare Philosophers and the Neoconservative Think Tanks" in Chapter 1 to answer this question. This policy could best be explained by "cultural conservatism" which states that "by reinforcing "traditional values such as delayed gratification, work and saving, commitment to family and to the next generation, education and training, self-improvement, and rejection of crime, drugs, and casual sex," human welfare can be improved (Karger & Stoesz 2013: 18)
Congress -- and signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 -- served a social welfare purpose but was not a matter of doling out checks to low income citizens. The point of the Act was to have the federal government "…spend proactively to increase consumer demand," and in the process to give stimulus to the private sector in order to achieve "full employment for every able American" -- including African-Americans, who had high unemployment numbers and struggled to achieve middle class socioeconomic status (Aja, et al
Social Welfare -- Its Origins and Contributions When did social welfare begin as a policy to help those who were struggling to find enough food, or suffering from a blight -- or otherwise in need of a lift from government? Why was social welfare initially launched -- and what groups or individuals were pivotal and ultimately influential as regards the social welfare movement? These questions will be addressed and critiqued in this paper utilizing the available scholarly literature. When Social Welfare Began Four hundred and eighty seven years ago in a section of Great Britain known as the East Anglian region, farmers were subjected to terrible crop failures -- due to pounding, unending rains -- and these conditions resulted in famine, according to a peer-reviewed article in Accounting History Review (Bisman, 2012)
While Vives is not a household name for those studying the history of social welfare dynamics, his ability to think outside the box in the 16th century has led to the existence of many of the social welfare programs in place today. A Swedish social welfare program that provided "universal home help to all older people" -- called Eldercare -- was established after World War II in order that older people could live in their "own homes" with full access to medical care (Gunnarsson, 2009)
This look back in terms of how authorities and bureaucracies from the Tudor era responded to human tragedies like famine -- at the dawn of the age of social welfare -- is instructive for today's student because it provides perspective through the history of human needs (Bisman, 108). Why Social Welfare Began Just four years after the corn commissions launched what is believed to have been the first documented instance of social welfare, Henry VIII responded legislatively to the growing number of people bogged down in poverty in Great Britain (Handel, 2009)
The fact is that Humphrey-Hawkins has not resulted in its intended outcome -- that African-Americans' and Latinos' unemployment rates could be dramatically reduced to be closer to Caucasians' rate of unemployment -- and today, according to Aja, the typical black and Latino family has about a nickel for every dollar in wealth "possessed by the typical white family" (783). The Influential People and Organizations that Contributed to Social Welfare The one name that stands out when reviewing those individuals in power that carved out meaningful social welfare programs and policies is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR); his New Deal included the introduction of Social Security which today is viewed as among the most stable and helpful social welfare programs in the United States (Kennedy, 2009)
28). With many teachers in America struggling to make it from paycheck to paycheck, the results of these misguided economic priorities have included many teachers searching for greener career fields elsewhere and many children being left behind despite the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (Allen, 2007)
386). Likewise, other researchers have examined the relationship between poverty and juvenile crime through literature reviews (Barton & Watkins, 1997), case studies (Bogenschneider & Gross, 2004) and longitudinal studies (Mann & Reynolds, 2006)
19). Moreover, juvenile crime is not the result of a single cause or even a multitude of causes that can be identified with precision (Bogenschneider & Gross, 2004)
19). Moreover, juvenile crime is not the result of a single cause or even a multitude of causes that can be identified with precision (Bogenschneider & Gross, 2004)
103). These trends have also been matched by changesin the American juvenile justice system that are characterized by so-called "get-tough," "zero-tolerance" and "accountability" policies in primary and secondary educational institutions (Brown, 2009)