Welfare and Social Responsibility :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

well-organism and Social Responsibility Welfare. Read that word to yourself and ask what popular im grows argue it. The first thing is probably women and children. This one is correct, because 97% of AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the federal official welfare program) is made up of women and children. Young women? Not re every last(predicate)y-the aver progress age of a mother receiving welfare is 29, and only 7.6% are under the age of 20. Is she grim? Maybe, because the composition of the welfare roles is about the same percentage black and white. More kids than she can count? The amount welfare family has 2.9 members. That means a single mom would have 1.9 children (fewer than the national average). Forever dependent?-the average length of a stay on welfare is 22 months. We surely think that they dont work. Without bringing up the question of why raising children is not considered work, the average AFDC benefit plus food stamps button up is only 69% of the p oorness line. Women on welfare are constantly working to hit up that difference. Do we think of welfare as expensive? AFDC represents ripe over 1% of the national budget. If welfare is not about adolescent women having lots of babies and living their life off the generosity of the state, and if its a miniscule part of the federal budget, why have Republicans chosen it as their pilot program issue? Why, when our Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and attempting to keep an unemployment rate of 6.2%, and when a job at minimum wage would still leave a mother with two children 23% below the poverty line, is entrance into the paid workforce being pushed as the panacea for poverty? If we are serious about getting people to work we call for relevant training programs, child care provisions, and efforts at job creation. These at least were discussed in the Clinton plan, if the plan was in many other ways as punitive and insubstantial as the Republican plan. The Republican p olitical orientation is particularly insidious because it shifts the entire frame of debate from the structural to the moral. It implies, change surface states, that if those people would just clean up their morals and stop being so lazy that they could have a place in the American Dream. Today welfare moms are understood to be the symbol for all that is morally wrong with America.