Why Relying on Welfare System Should Be Avoided

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The welfare system was created before the government welfare programs started. The system was created to help single mothers, children with disabilities, unemployment and, underemployment. The system offers many different ways to help such as: cash assistance, food stamps, employment assistance, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The system has helped a lot of needy families and still continues to help a lot of families. Many Americans have now started to qualify for help from the system. So people will get help from the system and stay on it just because it’s free.
In the article (Why get off welfare) by Michael Tanner he made a statement saying:
But there is also evidence that many are reluctant to accept available employment opportunities. Despite work requirements included in the 1996 welfare reform, the U.S Department of Health and Human Service says less than 42% of adult welfare recipients participate in work activities nationwide. Why is that contradiction?”
As we see in the statement above many people have taken full advantage of the program and use it for all the wrong reasons. Which is Herman D. Sten admitted that “Our society has never trusted the poor and particularly those who have to receive economic help.” Majority of the Americans that receive help from the system are not poor. Then you have folks that repeatedly have kid after kid just to receive more money in food stamps. In the book The Welfare Debate, Robert Emmet Long said “these chronic recipients have become the real source of public concern about welfare in recent years and rightly so” Americans use the benefits the wrong way. Which is why relying on the welfare system should be avoided because it is seen to be a clutch to many Americans...

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"The Department of Internal Affairs." Better Public Services. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2014. .
Long, Robert Emmet. The Welfare debate. New York: Wilson, 1989. Print.
Sten, Herman D. "The Crisis in Welfare." The Crisis in Welfare In Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, 1969. 10. Print.
Tanner, Michael. "Welfare: A Better Deal than Work | National Review Online." National Review Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2014. .
Tanner, Michael. "Why Get Off Welfare?" Why Get Off Welfare?. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. .

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