Summary: The United States Welfare System

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The United States government’s welfare program is potentially sending the government down the drain. The U.S. alone is in millions of dollars of debt, and the welfare program is not helping to get the country out of debt but further into debt. Over half of the American population is currently receiving some sort of benefit, and not every person receiving these benefits needs the money. We live in a selfish society. A society where we would do anything and everything to gain a little extra money so we will not have to work for it. The welfare system the United States currently runs is not proper or right. The welfare system is corrupted and full with cheats and frauds benefitting from taxpayers money. The welfare system has its ups and downs. The program can be tough but it also has its loopholes. The great welfare programs began in the 1930s during the Great Depression. FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, started hundreds of different programs to get the Americans out of poverty. He started to reform the United States for all of the right reasons (U.S.). Even then, …show more content…

The welfare system as the American people knew it from 1935 to 1996 was called Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The history of welfare is split into four effective stages on the timeline. Stage one was the stage when it was hard for the people to receive benefits. The state governments had discretion to help people they found deserving and turned away those they thought were undeserving (Edelman). Many of the states would tell the people no just because they thought the person looked capable of finding jobs. Which is just what some people need in today’s world. Some people are just too lazy today, but still receive benefits. Versus when people in the Great Depression really needed to be on welfare, had jobs but also got turned away from the program

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