Poverty in Dallas, Texas

Paper Summary:

The premise of this paper is that the program of welfare reform has done more harm than good in the Dallas, Texas area. The purpose of welfare reform is to reduce the number of people in the United States that receive public assistance. The paper focuses on the effects that welfare reform has had on the children in the Dallas, Texas area and supports the hypothesis that a more comprehensive approach is more effective than programs in the past that only concentrated on one aspect of the problem. The paper concludes that addressing one aspect of the poverty problem does not represent long-term solutions. The culture of the neighborhood has to be changed before the problem can be effectively addressed.

Outline:
Scope of the Problem
Solutions for the Children
The problem of Housing
Welfare to Wwork
Conclusion
Works cited

From the Paper:

"After the implementation welfare reform, poverty in the Dallas area grew to almost 2% of the nearly 632,676 families living in the Dallas area (Appleton, 1A). One must remember that this number only reflects the number of families, and does not tell us anything about the number of children and its effects on them. Over the past ten years and the number of persons living below the poverty line in the Dallas area has grown by over 17% (Appleton, 1A). Welfare reform did have an effect of reducing the number of households on public assistance from 4% in 1990 to 2% in 2002 (Appleton, 1A). However, it did nothing to reduce the number of persons actually living below the poverty line. For some it made this situation worse because they were still below the poverty line, only now they had fewer means of support."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Annie E. Casey Foundation. City KIDS COUNT: Data on the Well-Being of Children in Large Cities 2005. http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/city/intro.htm Accessed December 8, 2005.
• Appleton, R. "As prosperity in area grew, so did poverty," The Dallas Morning News, May 26, 2002. Page 1A.
• Cauthen, N. Why Social Security matters to children and families: What every policymaker should know. New York, NY. 2005. National Center for Children in overty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. http:www.nccp.org/pub_wsw05b.html December 8, 2005.
• Evans, T. Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church (OCBF). Dallas/Fort Worth Project Turn Around Model. Project Turn Around (PTS) 2005. http://www.tonyevans.org/pta/ptafactsheet.htm - Accessed December 8, 2005.
• Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. (MDRC). NEWWS Program Summaries. 2005. http://www.mdrc.org/Reports2002/TANF/TANF-Introduction.htm Accessed December 8, 2005.

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