In a country like America that boasts probably the highest standard of living in the world, one wonders why poverty-stricken areas still persist. Even poverty remaining about the same or decreasing slowly but surely would satisfy most Americans who do not want to hear about social problems anyway. Unfortunately, poverty rates are not declining, and impose a heavy burden on cities.
“ Poverty, all day, everyday” (Cristobal,2000). Coming home everyday to nothing to eat is the scenario for the young children whose parents are on welfare. Those parents are stuck on welfare and can’t give there children anything they want, they take the money the state gives them just to get by, maybe not even able to get the biological needs to survive. But what kind of people are on welfare? Should taxpayers pay for the mistakes of lazy and unmotivated citizens? Welfare is very questionable, why should we give free money to people who may need help or just be plain slackers.
We need to address these problems and find a solution to welfare and who should receive it. Poverty, the lower class in need of money and don’t have very much of it. Welfare helps those in the class of poverty but what do they do with those checks on the 1st and 15th. If the people on welfare were hurting or trying to recover welfare wouldn’t be a problem but when they stay on it for a long period it puts a strain on the American economy. We need a more demanding application for welfare to really see who needs the help and whose just trying to get a free check in the mail.
According to Susan Mayer, who conducted a study on poverty, there are two types of poor people..................
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