Welfare System Changes

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This paper discusses that the issue of welfare reform was the catch phrase, hot button topic for the majority of the two preceding decades in the United because of the alarming growth of the allocations being allotted to social service programs. The paper states that in making all of these reforms the federal government attempted to give the individual states more control over the funding as long as they met particular requirements laid out in an outline of proposed services. The author believes that early results of the system changes gave some people hope that the reforms were going to be a success, namely those who were responsible for the passing of the legislation.

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"A potential problem of this quantitative rather than qualitative deadline system is the limitation of the ability of n individual to make broad decisions about future employment, the new system would limit individuals to job training programs and trade school systems rather than higher education which might be a more long term solution. In addition to this potential problem the issue of age become paramount when services are handed out. (Hopkins 25) If an individual has a lifetime cap on services then receiving benefits at a young age, say when a person is just starting out with an new family and unexpected economic demands, will and does become questionable. What if they need services when they are older and they have used up the services available to them? Young people have been denied services or choices based on this reality, at a time when a help up would benefit them most."

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