I don't know much about governmental assistance personally, but I know a few people in my family who is currently receiving assistance. My second cousin is living on housing assistance, has two children, never really worked and if she did she couldn't keep a stable job. We can imagine what’s next right? People that live in these situations generally grew up watching their parents live this way. Her mother, my first cousin seemed to have always lived in poverty. They lived from paycheck to paycheck, they moved houses frequently, had two children, and her children's father barely helped out when they were together. It is sad to say, but it seems like the apple didn't fall far from the tree. My grandmother receives food stamps because she is elderly …show more content…
The Social Safety Net is multiple services provided by the state that helps people not to fall into poverty. The services provided would be universal health care, unemployment, welfare, and more. These services are provided to basically keep citizens’ head above water when times get rough. A lot of people who are living in poverty depend on these services when unfortunate situations occur. Because these resources are available, it is the citizen’s fault that they don't get assistance. For example, let’s say if I became like my aunt who had six boys and applied for assistance, that’s understandable because not all of their dads were there to help them. That’s why these programs are in place to help single family homes, providing the things they need so it doesn't take a toll on …show more content…
The families will have to find a home that suits their comfortableness and the owner of the property has to approve that they can live there while using governmental assistance. My parents are landlords and they do not rent their homes out to people on housing assistance. The reason being is, one it is a long process, two they know people who are on housing assistance wont treat it like their home and the renters know they have to pay a small amount so they won't take care of it, three housing assistance will pay you through a bank account vs. someone who is renting without assistance you get your money in your hand, four people who are on housing assistance allow other people to move in with them when there is already a limit of people to live there because the houses aren’t so big. According to the housing assistance rules, the downfall I think there is, is there’s a waiting list. They take who they think needs it the most first and take who needs it the least last, even though they all have applied for it. Not everyone’s situation is the same. For instance, if you are homeless, paying more than fifty percent of your income towards rent, and involuntarily displaced, you are more likely to move ahead of families who are on the waiting
The article “Back At Square One’: As States Repurpose Welfare Funds, More Families Fall Through Safety Net” was written by Peter S. Goodman. The article is about the struggle that people have all over the United States. Many of these individuals struggle to provide food, a decent place to live, and other common standards of living to their families. Goodman writes of a few women but mainly focuses on a woman named Brianna Butler who is struggling. In the reading there are many struggles she faces such as getting funding and getting help. Her major dilemma is that in order to receive financial assistance she needs to attend a four-week class, but no one will watch her child so she cannot go to the classes, so she does not receive the money. According to the article There are thousands of people who experience daily strife and when the United States economy experienced trouble many businesses had to lay people off and this created an even
Do you believe that food stamps are a drag to our economy, or the answer to its problems? Food stamps today are so controversial to the following question, “do they really benefit people who are in need of aid, or people who are too lazy to work?” Food stamps can seem like one of these, or both. Each side to the question has extraordinary points of why food stamps they are good, or bad. Food stamps are needed to feed millions of families in America and the world, but they are mistreated by some people who are lazy and would rather take a government check for the rest of their lives instead of work. Even though food stamps raises the unemployment and obesity rates rate and obesity, theyit still aids people who can not afford themit and
Programs like Unemployment, Medicare, and Social Security increase the number to roughly fifty percent. Granted that some of these programs are paid in programs, the number of people that are relying on government assistance is too high. In total, there are thirteen categories that fall under the title of Welfare (Federal Safety Net). These programs are put into place to provide things like cash, food, housing, medical benefits, social services, child services, and training. The main target of these programs is low-income Americans. Firstly, the unfair distribution of funds is a problem in more than one way. Individuals of families who are in real need may be receiving government assistance, but they would be getting more sufficient help if funds and resources were not so loosely spent. Another way in which funds are being unfairly distributed is the products and services obtained by recipients on welfare
The biggest complication with welfare is that way too many individuals have become dependent on the government, when the assistance should have only been temporary. A solution to reducing the amount of dependent families could be to reform housing benefits and social housing. The Government should look at ways to increase home ownership and reduce the work disincentives created by social housing (O’Brien). Discouragin...
As part of the Affordable Care Act, beginning this year Medicaid will expand eligibility to include all uninsured individuals under the age of 65 whose incomes fall at or below 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, or about $32,500 for a family of four. However, the 2012 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the law also allowed states more flexibility concerning what parts of the ACA they can implement and said that those same states would not lose federal funding for their existing programs. This result would leave the decision to opt out of the law's provision into the hands of state legislators. While twenty-six states have chosen to expand healthcare coverage, twenty-one states have not and four have yet to make a decision. The state of Florida is among those not seeking to expand coverage and that decision alone could cost Florida millions of dollars a year in tax penalties. As conservative and liberal state lawmakers square off into a maelstrom of debate over whether Medicaid should cover more people, thousands of uninsured Floridians will be caught in the crossfire.
The reality that exists for these individuals is different than that which is assumed by many. People assume that recipients are lazy and that they do not want to work, or that they are very promiscuous women who have children in order to continue receiving help from the government. The realities for these...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by President Barack Obama is a significant change of the American healthcare system since insurance plans programs like Medicare and Medicaid (“Introduction to”). As a result, “It is also one of the most hotly contested, publicly maligned, and politically divisive pieces of legislation the country has ever seen” (“Introduction to”). The Affordable Care Act should be changed because it grants the government too much control over the citizen’s healthcare or the lack of individual freedom to choose affordable health insurance.
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Obviously a question that will arise is where the funding will come from, well mainly from the lovely thing called taxpayers’ money. Its time they put a stop to seemingly wasteful projects and integrate it to ones beneficial to the society as a whole. Thereafter, once they are housed the assistance program will continue their support by linking them with employment, and attaining rapid access to other needed services such as Medicaid, and food stamps. Some people simply require a little push to get them back on their feet. Once affordable housing is made more available along with the assisting that helps maintain it, all excuses should be out the door.
Homelessness is a major public health problem throughout the United States due to increasing income disparities.1 About 650,000 people are homeless on any given day.2 Homelessness not only affects individuals, but families which include adults, children who may also experience mental illness, disabilities, or substance abuse.3 Homelessness is correlated with mental illness, substance abuse as well as loss of employment, poor health and, limited access to resources. While the state budget immediately considers fund housing initiatives to solve chronic homelessness it may not be the most efficient policy that this population needs. Housing does not provide necessary health services, may offer unequal aid to individuals and families, and may not be a priority for those individuals who are homeless. The state government should not fund housing policies for the homeless.
Like all living things, humans require energy in order to perform basic bodily functions and to live out the events in their everyday life. We obtain this energy from the many different types of food that we eat, and it is necessary in or der to live out a healthy lifestyle. Unfortunately, food is one of the most expensive items we have to pay for throughout our life, and the prices of many foods are increasing—especially those that are most nutritious. With many job loss out in the world today some people might not even be able to find a well-paying job. As a result of this, many people in the lower class are struggling to provide the food necessary for not only themselves, but for their families as well. With low paying jobs that people have
Take a moment, think about what life would be like where you ate well only once a month, where how well you ate depended on one check a month. How difficult would it be to let this check last all month? Food doesn’t last and the check dwindles until the last cent is used. This is a reality for about 13.5% of the US population and they live this way each month. Food stamps are designed to bring aid to those in need of support, those who make a lower income and can’t afford enough food for themselves or their families.
I will discuss the solutions as primary and secondary preventive strategies. First, the stable families with the layoffs, low wages, and unemployment benefit exhaustion, will have an assessment to make sure the situation has not escalated to other problems such as abuse. Next, I think the eligible families should have an opportunity to own their own homes. A nonprofit organization founded by Christians called Habitat for Humanity International. Their goal is to eliminate homelessness and poverty homelessness nationwide by building houses with the help of the...
By taking advantage of all the governments programs she was able to live more than comfortably without working at all. When a person “needs” help from the government it is usually a sign they do not know how to make the best choices. Why the government even considers supplying them with more money if they have been proven to be irresponsible with it in the first place is beyond me. Every year it seems we pay more and more money in taxes due to government assistance. The government does not have any consequences for people who misuse this extra benefit.
Fortunately, my mom, along with many families I know, received food stamps to help with essentials for the house. When my grandparents came back into the picture of my mom’s life, they helped cover my mom’s bills when she came up short. Many of mine and my siblings gifts came from our appartments management that allotted a food box, and twenty dollars to each child one apartment. Every year when school supplies shopping, we went to a local community center that gave away free backpacks full of basic school supplies for those who lived in low income housing. Me and my siblings had the luxury- to me a huge gift- to be able to do a few weeks of gymnastics, hip hop dance class, and horseriding training. Those short programs were only made possible by my grandad’s help. My mother was sure to emphasize about how much of a gift my grandad was giving us. Poverty is