Argumentation on TANF a form of Medicaid

959 Words2 Pages

Argumentation on TANF a form of Medicaid

North Carolina’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is one of the primary forms of Medicaid. TANF is also called Work First, which is based on the premise that parents have a responsibility to support themselves and their children. Through Work First, parents can get short-term training and other services to help them become employed and self-sufficient later on, but the responsibility is theirs to find the actual job. Most families have two years or less to move off Work First Family Assistance and after that they are completely on their own. According to a document found on Civic Report, the sixty percent of the rise employment among single mothers is due to the fact the money they are given is not enough to support their families.

I don’t agree with this policy implemented by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The government fails to realize they are misleading the household and the mind set of the family members living in the household. This realization leads me to ask the question, does welfare have a color? Has the welfare line become the modern day Mason Dixon line? I believe that welfare was promoted as a way to help families in crisis, but the true purpose was to destroy African American families.

The welfare system appears to have been designed to keep the male breadwinner out of the home. If the goal had been to help keep families together, then checks would have been disbursed whether or not the father was still at home. By the government helping out a house hold, the right thing to do is have the people in the house help out financially as well. Welfare can not pay all the bills, and people who are on welfare are prohibited from workin...

... middle of paper ...

...ot fulfill their financial needs as well as continuing to supply households who may be finding other means of financial stability, at least for a set amount of time. This extra means of financial resources for just a short amount of time would actually benefit the American government in the long run. Once those families become stable, the government can tax them.

Works Cited
• Unknown. “Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.” Wikipedia. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Assitance_for_Needy_familes

• Wiener Malcolm. “The Real Welfare Problem.” The American Prospect. www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article-the_real_welfare_problem. 2009

• Snyder Travis. “Welfare; History; Results and Reform.” www.neoperspectives.com/welfae. 2004

• Unknown. “US Department of Health and Human Services: Administration for children’s & families. www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/ 2009

Open Document