Jobs and Welfare Blog Entry

The government began tracking Welfare in 1975. We have had the Welfare Reform Program for 10 years now, and the number of TANF cases has decreased. Before we put the Welfare Reform plan into action the Government would just hand out cash with "no strings attatched", This was called AFDC or Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Now the Government will still hand out money to families in need, but the money must be used for specific things such as education or food. According to this article more single mothers have been getting jobs. People making 19,350 or less per year with 4 or more individuals in their family are considered to be living in poverty. Policy Makers and Citizens have reached different conclusions on whether they think the Welfare Reform has been a good change or a bad change.
I believe the new system "Welfare Reform" is the better way to help families in need. We can't just be handing out money to families and let them spend it however they want because there are families who will take great advantage of that and waste the money. Also, before the Welfare Reform the more children women had the more money they would recieve. If you think about this, if a woman had 1 child and knew she would recieve at least another $100 dollars per month if she had another child the woman would keep having children in order to increase the amount of money recieved per month. This is promoting a bad system- The women can't even take care of their 1 baby yet they will have more just to recieve a little extra cash each month. Obama doesn't agree with Welfare Reform however, an infulencial political official who does is Mr. Tim Pawlenty. Welfare Reform is on Pawlenty's list of issues he is working on.

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