What Is Welfare?
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? According to recent polls, most Americans
consider this nation's welfare system “a failure and a disgrace” (LeVert
10). Most people use the word “welfare” to mean income support or public
assistance programs designed to help people who are already poor. Although
it is geared to poverty ....
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.... problem of homelessness is worsened by
the welfare programs that offer subsistence rather than opportunities, or
incentives (Long 23). Federal expenditures for public and private low-cost
housing have been cut from $30 billion, in 1981, to $7 billion in 1987, and
only about 4 million of 10 million eligible households receive federal
rental assistance of any kind (Long 29).
In the essay, “A Nation of Welfare Families,” Stephanie Coontz
discusses her belief that all families in Ame ....
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