Re-establish reform of the Welfare-to-Work Program
The current U.S. system of social protection needs a complete overhaul, not only provide better programs for those who really need it, but to help fill some gaps that currently ravaging the program. Some people, as Stephanie and her friend Maria, who currently works at the international airport of Port Columbus, have a familiar scheme they use to deceive system.
Stephanie and Maria work as representatives of customer service for an airline, where they represent $ 9 an hour. Both work full time and put in lots of overtime, but as each has three children, depending on their household income, they are qualified to receive social assistance as long as they earn a certain salary amount per month, which is below the poverty line. Therefore, Each month, they report to the welfare office to work part time only. They do not tell the exact number of hours they worked each, and equates well-being of their hours with cash assistance to offset what they do not earn at work. In doing so, they continue to make money Office and welfare monthly real earnings.
Other examples of those who could exploit the welfare system are If Angela, Jackie, John and Helen.
Jackie is 45 years old woman, who has two grown daughters. Her husband died when the children were 19 and 17. She lives in an apartment in a division of section 8 where it does not pay rent. She never finished high school and had only a few jobs odd on and off, throughout his life. If you go to his apartment, do not you think it is a welfare recipient, because it has a large screen TV, DVD to almost all movies ever released, and she smokes about two packs of cigarettes a day. Jackie is in perfect health and is able to find and have a paying job, but because she chose not to, it does not work because it is based on his performance welfare.
Helen is a lady 29 years young and has 6 children. Her eldest daughter is 13 and each child has a different father. Helen does not have to work and it will probably never, because she receives welfare. For each child, she receives a certain sum of money every month and she also lives in Section 8 housing where it did not pay the rent.
John has 52 years and has 5 children. Each of her children live with their mothers different. For years, he has been in and out of prison for drug trafficking, and now lives with his girlfriend in a one bedroom apartment in the Section 8 housing, where they do not pay rent until they have no income. His girlfriend works, but she gets paid under the table and She did not file a federal tax on income, because of fear of losing their welfare benefits. John still selling drugs, and they have three different cars, but not a car in their name, but his brother's name and the name of his eldest daughter's.
Angela is a lady 46, who has been legally deaf since she was in Grade 8. It did not work, never has and probably never will ever, because it is legally invalid and therefore he receives federal welfare, which are housing, food and money each month.
As described in the examples above, the present social system lacks the necessary tools in place to help fight against fraud with force welfare. It also has disadvantages and makes people become lazy, because the more they remain on welfare and not have to work, then the more they lose the will always seek a job. In addition, they may even forget all the work they could do when they were employed. These are people who could be outside of work, helping to contribute to the national economy, but they simply chose not to work and live on welfare without having to worry about always working and paying for rent, utilities and food.
America is the richest country on earth with the greatest economy. The U.S. government is well known throughout the world to take care of his own people, in terms of social welfare and socio-economic empowerment.
Most Americans, even those on welfare or living below the poverty line are still better off compared to those of many other countries. However, in continuing to provide welfare without restriction to certain citizens, the government has been handicapping some of the beneficiaries social assistance in continuing to provide all their needs, without ever trying to help them improve their skills to find jobs in the future.
To achieve these objectives to take care of his people, the U.S. federal government has instituted numerous programs to implement policies to achieve the highest welfare for all legal residents. The American system of welfare is one of the best social program in the United States to provide the necessities for those unable to work and earn income to finance their welfare.
The United States plans welfare was introduced after the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Social Security Administration website is that beginning in 1932, the federal government, the first loans, and grants to States to pay for direct assistance and relief job. After that, special federal relief and public works programs were launched. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed legislation to Congress economic security embodying the recommendations of a commission established safety economy. There followed the adoption of the Law on Social Security, enacted August 14, 1935.
The ongoing protection Social brings needed food stamps, known as food stamps and housing assistance, known as the Section 8 program for low income families and those who are unable to earn their living because of health problems related and the monthly cash allowance to certain beneficiaries.
In Because the current system of social protection which most observers believe is flawed, there have been talks on reforming the system of welfare for many years. In 1997, President Clinton took the first step in reforming the welfare system through its initiatives to support social work program. The Welfare-to-Work program was specifically designed to help provide social assistance appeals necessary training and skills so that they may get jobs in the future and not continue to rely on the help system Federal Social. In so doing, the program will help other recipients of social assistance to reintegrate into working life.
According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Welfare to Work Program has been established to encourage States to provide logistical support for some, as funding for transportation, job training, childcare, and support drug treatment for recipients of aid social. However, many states have complained that they could not meet certain requirements such as providing transportation and childcare. For logistical and political reasons, the program abruptly ended in September 2004.
Some applauded the program when many thought the program was designed to force people to work. In 2003, O'Neil's New York Post wrote that the politicians of left and right receive social assistance work program as a success beyond expectations, but the program is still under siege policy imposed to reauthorize its basic component and is now a year late and seems like it may never pass by the Capitol Hill politics. In this article, O'Neil simply characterizes how Some politicians from both left and right may say something, just to score political points for future re-election purposes, but fail to fulfill their obligations and do the opposite.
Purpose of President Clinton and the goal was to reform the welfare system to better serve its purposes. He reinforced his rigorous commitment to provide welfare recipients with opportunities to achieve educational and development contribute to further improve their knowledge and skills necessary to find better paying jobs in the future and help rid them constantly receiving welfare assistance.
However, when Bush took office in 2000, he had his own agenda as the "No Child Left Behind program, but not to ensure that the Welfare-to-Work program survives the political obstacle. It has also been a few months in office to when the United States was hit by a terrorist act in September 2001, and then the war against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq followed in October 2001 and March 2003 respectively.
Thus, maintain and continue to fund certain programs such as welfare-to-work program could not have been a priority for the U.S. government during these years of war against terrorism and recession. The U.S. economy has slowed since early 2000 and so far in the year 2008, the economy never really recovered to the point where Government May include some programs such as welfare to work system in its budget monster to fight and fight terrorism.
The Welfare to Work Program has been designed to be a solution to the welfare system and provide meaningful benefits to beneficiaries. However, President Clinton's plan collapsed because he and his advisers did not study more about how to make it work better, given its complex task and the obligation of States. An addition to the cause of its collapse, the House has been mainly controlled by the Republican legislator who strongly opposed and voted against most of the proposals of President Clinton.
Thus, having not provide all the tools necessary, appeals and funding could help to contribute to the collapse of the program. If it has been well studied and developed, it could last for a long period to help provide better incentives to help certain individuals and families to rely solely on grants from the federal government welfare.
In the article "Welfare-to-Work Transition" by Jacqueline J. Kirby appeared in Development human Ohio State University and his family newsletter, she described the history and legacy of the Welfare to Work program and data used and information from various sources to compare their arguments such as concerns related to federal regulation mandating matches inadequate funding State, the lack of specific eligibility criteria for each state across the country, and no specific guidelines and indicated the need to know how and where money will be spent in each state. It depicts a program that was implemented for good intentions but without proper execution.
There are few federal programs that are strictly managed and designed to make difficult or almost impossible for someone to cheat or take advantages of them. Programs such as scholarships and Pell some States have programs like unemployment benefits, which have some of the best control programs designed to measure and verify the qualifications for anyone May apply to both types.
The scholarship Pell has two important rules and rigorous - felony and time of the CAP for the completion the first degree. Under these rules, when someone requests financial assistance from the federal government to receive the Pell award, the applicant must not have a drug offense on his record and has qualified for the undergraduate degree within eight years. Applying financial assistance and has a drug crime on his record, while the candidates are not eligible to receive Pell grants for their education. In addition, if the recipient of financial assistance did not graduate with their undergraduate degree within eight years, then after eight years, he or she will not be eligible to receive a Pell grant.
For unemployment, when someone has been put off for a reason other that quit or resign, then that person calls claiming unemployment benefits each week, then he or she must provide full details to seek work for each week claimed. If he or she fails to find a job, then he or she is ineligible to claim unemployment this week or other weeks he or she has not sought employment.
Both programs work well and they have the tools and resources in place to help prevent fraud and make it difficult for anyone to receive ongoing benefits. They encourage their recipients to ensure they must follow and comply with their strict rules to be eligible for benefits. However, the current system of social protection has no limit how long someone can continue to receive welfare benefits.
In some European countries like Denmark, the government provides its citizens with government grants of revenue, they have an incentive program that encourages citizens to work or do anything that may generate income for their households. In the United States is different. Provided that one is unemployed and has a reasonable excuse to convince officials welfare, then he or she is perfectly safe and have access to government-sponsored (section eight) homes without ever having to worry about to pay rent.
Therefore, if the Welfare-to-work program is reformed to equally and effectively meet the needs of both government Federal, state, and welfare recipients, it will help more welfare recipients to find jobs, which will help them become more productive and contribute to increasing GDP. Part of the money spent in the program can be used for other social programs.
Reforming the welfare system was a topic that has been discussed by many experts over the years, but the set yields, little action. Even during our presidential candidates, John McCain, Clinton and Obama rarely speaks of his subject. But it is one of many problems that need immediate attention.
It raises not just a compliment for those who get up every morning to go to work, just to help finance the welfare system for those who simply chose not to work because they simply do not want to work for as long as the protection system for their financial well-being.
In an article entitled "Reforming welfare to work" Gueron denounced as which our country was able to discuss the question of how much to redefine the welfare system, particularly with a federal support for well-being of families with dependent children (AFDC) Program, which is equipped and is responsible to provide cash assistance to single parent households female parent. Questions Gueron if the welfare program should be continued emphasis on providing broad assistance or should it simply become one of "reciprocal obligations" program, whereby recipients should be required to find work in a period of time.
There are many Jackies, Johns, and Helen in most neighborhoods around the Let's reform U.S. welfare system to help rehabilitate and empower them, give them training and skills and to work so that we continue to strengthen our economy.
Works cited
Welfare-to-Work (1996, June). U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Retrieved Wednesday, April 9, 2008, from http://www.opm.gov/wtw/index.htm.
O'Neill, J. (2003, April 14). Welfare Reform Works. New York Post, pp.A11, A14.
Kirby, JJ (1995). Welfare-to-Work Transition. The Ohio State University's Human Development and Family Life Bulletin, Volume 1, Number 4, Winter 1995. Accessed Wednesday, April 9, 2008, from http://fcs.osu.edu/hdfs/bulletin/volume.1/bull14a.htm.
Gueron, JM (1987). Reforming welfare to work. New York: Ford Foundation.
About the Author
Simon Kapenda is a current economics student at the Ohio State University and creator of RentersQ at www.rentersq.com.
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