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The Welfare System, 2006.
An overview of the American welfare system, its history, programs and problems.
1,459 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper describes the beginnings of the American welfare system and how it evolved over time into the network of welfare programs operating today. The paper also describes the purpose of the welfare system as well as some of the welfare programs that are available today to American citizens. Additionally, the paper looks at whether the present welfare system in the U.S. is achieving its objective of helping the poor and most vulnerable in society or whether it is failing to meet that objective.
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"Until the nineteenth century, many people lived in large extended families, including grandparents, cousins, and other relatives, that worked together for generations of family farms, however, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, countries around the world shifted from primarily agrarian to primarily industrial economies, and during the late twentieth century, some of these nations shifted again and became primarily postindustrial, or service and information based, economies (Welfare pp). The tradition of large families living together began to disappear, and many began living in smaller families, consisting of only married couples and their children (Welfare pp). Moreover, the industrial and postindustrial jobs often depend on flexible and mobile workers, thus many people have to commute long distances from home to work, and may even have to relocate (Welfare pp). The majority of people in developed nations today have completely separate family and work lives because small, flexible families are better suited to these types of work patterns, however, small families do not provide the kind of social support that extended families do, and in addition, single-parent households provide even less support than the typical nuclear families (Welfare pp)."
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Cultural Sensitivity in the Child Welfare System, 2008.
An analysis of the importance of improved cultural sensitivity within the child welfare system.
3,229 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 93.95
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This paper examines the importance of improvements in cultural sensitivity in the child welfare system of the United States. It discusses the reasons for these requirements and how it would help to make the organization an effective entity within society. It also looks at the role of the leadership within the child welfare system in supporting and promoting this cultural sensitivity.
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"The research supports the concept that child welfare agencies would benefit from developing culturally sensitive environments. This is evidenced through systems approaches that acknowledge that all elements within a system, or culture, should be considered as a means of understanding the system. Additionally, culturally sensitive environments can be impacted by the workers that support the organization and the leadership styles that inspire workers to meet new objectives and visions for a culturally sensitive workplace."
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The Development of The American Welfare System, 2008.
A discussion of the development and changes to the welfare system in the United States.
3,422 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 25 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This paper discusses the modern welfare system as it exists in America and describes how it grew out of the cataclysm of the Great Depression. It looks at the division between social insurance and welfare to an increasing emphasis on disability. The paper suggests that welfare in America came from the uncertain efforts to match European states which had far more advanced systems.
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"The Clinton administration forced a number of changes to the welfare system through executive action, requiring teen mothers on welfare to stay in school and requiring mothers to identify the fathers of their children as a condition to receiving welfare. These actions were intended to contribute to the education of welfare recipients and to hold men accountable for child support. To pressure non-paying parents, the administration used federal law enforcement against people trying to avoid child support by crossing state lines. These efforts did manage a change in the welfare system, with significant reductions of the number of people on welfare and increases in child support collections (Clinton)."
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Insights into the Child Welfare System, 2007.
An analysis of the areas that call for attention in terms of revision within the child welfare system (CWS).
3,081 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper presents a welfare professional's insights into the child welfare system (CWS). The paper explains that the welfare professional was a foster child herself and then goes on to describe three areas that call for attention in terms of revision within CWS: These issues concern systems thinking and the interrelatedness of all CWS decisions, cultural issues in CWS dealings relating to both structural inequality and diversity theories and organizational structure issues, which are relevant in both leadership and change theories and organizational change theories.
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"Finally, changes in the organizational structure and overall running protocol of CWS agencies will allow improvements in the system. Expecting and fostering accountability will create an environment of strength and security, greatly improving the chances of success for CWS clients. Additional collaboration with outside and connected organizations will provide support and insight while maintaining that accountability through open expectations and goal sharing with those agencies. Most importantly, these changes must occur while moving CWS toward a flat organizational structure. This will address current structural and bureaucratic problems while increasing inter-agency communication. Reducing levels of management will also allow management to work more closely with "front line" staff and improve quality of care."
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The Child Welfare System, 2002.
The paper discusses two essays written by leaders in the field to expose the facts and problems of the child welfare system.
1,435 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper compares essays written by experts in the field of child welfare which examine the problems of the system and the solutions they offer. The paper discusses Duncan Lindsey?s article "The Changing Welfare of Children" which involves the changing needs of children since the family structure has changed so dramatically over the last fifty years. The paper then examines Catharyn Baird?s article "Conversations about Distributive Justice" which challenges people to seek equal distributive justice.
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"This essay first started by exposing the problem of child poverty. First, it pointed out that the United States is the wealthiest nation in the world with the highest rate of child poverty. Lindsey then explained the problem that developed due in part to mothers joining the workforce and the lack of childcare that stemmed from it. Lindsey gives many quotes that are difficult to read and require more analyzation to process. The essay is meant for concerned individuals. The charts and statistics give an insight into the problem of child poverty. The essay appeals to the reason individuals and their emotions toward children."
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The Welfare System since 1960, 2006.
A discussion regarding the welfare system in the United States.
1,148 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses how compared to other countries, the United States does not have a generous welfare system. The paper reports that unlike other countries, there is no federal paid maternity leave, for instance, or family allowances and no national health insurance. The paper further discusses how ideas have changed regarding reproduction and women's roles in society, and these have made an impact on the welfare state.
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"During the Nixon era, thinkers seriously debated establishing a universal basic income for all citizens. Some officials feared, however, that employers would "use the increased income received by the poor as an excuse to lower the wages that they pay these employees." In other words employers would say, "Well, you are getting money from the government, so you don't need me to pay you so much." They also feared that a "floor" under the income of poor families might actually operate "as a ceiling on earned income" so that the poor would actually be worse off instead of better (Block & Somers, 2003). The idea of a guaranteed annual income was defeated.
In 1988 the Family Support Act was signed into law. Single mothers on welfare had to participate in Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program if they wanted assistance. In 1996 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families was enacted, which limited the length of time a person could receive benefits. Thus, public programs that were once designed to discourage women from working outside their homes have been transformed and now require women to get jobs."
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The Welfare System, 2004.
This paper discusses the welfare system and argues that welfare is not a positive program for families.
1,285 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper explains that, while the changes have moved in a direction that is supposed to help families get out of the system, they still fall short of the mark; welfare is bad for families because it encourages dependency on the program, which can be multi-generational. The author points out that welfare in every state pays stipends that vary in what they lay out in cash, but the payments are all well below the national poverty level and not enough to live on. The paper relates that food stamps open the door for fraud; if the family adults go to work, the entire family loses the food stamps.
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Introduction
The Problems
Conclusion
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"While this is a sad plight, it also proves that families can survive without the benefit of a welfare program. Welfare dependency goes deeper than financial issues. Welfare stigma can create a depression and embarrassment of the person who collects it. Welfare is frowned upon by John Q. Public and those who are on it often lose confidence in their ability to tackle their problems and overcome their plight. That defeatist attitude can be made worse each time a participant in a welfare program has to pull out a food stamp card in a store, or enroll their child in a state run free day care program. Another thing that can be discouraging is that many employers get tax benefits by hiring welfare recipients. Those recipients disclose to the employer that they receive welfare and that can be embarrassing so the recipient chooses not to look for a job at all."
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Ontario Welfare System, 2008.
A discussion of the ability of service delivery models to assist lower income groups and the necessity of welfare systems to review their policies.
1,365 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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The paper discusses concerns regarding the ability of service delivery models (SDMs) to give support to socio-economically challenged families and individuals in the community. The paper continues and relates that, although there is recognition of the need for welfare reform, policy changes have devolved in its efforts to support disenfranchised and socially excluded vulnerable groups. At the same time, the Ontario Ministry of Finance believes that the welfare restructuring will help the most vulnerable. In the course of this paper, these opinions are assessed and their subsequent impact on welfare services in Ontario determined. The research focuses mainly on the impact of the reforms on child welfare services and income support services for low-income families. The criteria used for the research is whether the reforms have increased the social inclusion and capacity of clientele receiving these services.
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Introduction
Welfare reforms
Impact assessment and evaluation
Conclusion
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"The issue of welfare is not an issue that can be discussed without the need to delve in social, economic and political issues. Canada in general has been sensitive to social demographics and developments however there is also the realization that current demands on social services are stretching resources thin. Though there has been a number of a research highlighting the challenges of the current Ontario Works SDM, there is still significant room to facilitate the improvements. As it is, despite significant efforts to improve services and their delivery, the clientele of Ontario Works feel deficiencies in welfare services. There is no denying that there are parties who abuse welfare services, but this should not be the burden of people who really need welfare support. The prevailing perception is that policies have not just been unable to alleviate welfare concerns but have exacerbated concerns and limited the capacity of welfare services to respond to developing demands."
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Welfare System Changes, 2002.
This paper discusses the need to evaluate the recent changes to the welfare system.
1,325 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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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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Quality Management and UK Welfare System, 2006.
A discussion of Dr. W. Edward Deming's management theory and how it could be used by the British Welfare to Work Program.
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper investigates the underlying principles of Dr. W. Edward Deming's management theory, the "System of Profound Knowledge," to determine whether the managerial leadership properties of this theory represent a paradigm shift in current management leadership theory. The paper then describes how Deming's theory could be used by the Benefits Agency in Britain in establishing a modern welfare state.
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"Today, thousands of leaders in organizations throughout the world are applying his methods. They are certain that application of his principles is necessary for future economic and social progress. The Deming management method accomplishes exceptional long-term performance for organizations through the creation of value for customers and an organizational environment of continual improvement which reduces waste; enhances productivity; lowers costs; and generates higher profits, stability and long-term growth."
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Impact of the Welfare Reforms on the Welfare System, 2002.
A paper exploring the relation between poverty and welfare reforms and the research potential of the same in the future.
2,130 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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The paper studies how society decided that the poor should do something about their situation, they did not need to live on welfare and they should get jobs. Thus, in 1996 a welfare reform was introduced in the U.S. that came under the name of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, suggesting that the welfare provided to the poor in the nation would be temporary. The behavior of the individuals would be monitored until such a time when they changed their behavior and got jobs to support themselves. This paper studies the predictive impact of the welfare reform that took place on the poor of the urban areas and the associated factors.
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"Most of the jobs into which welfare recipients are being pushed, while good enough for teenagers living at home with working parents, are not of much help to heads of households. Thus, not surprisingly, several studies have shown that inner-city residents cannot increase their households' incomes by taking suburban jobs.(6) Of course, a bad job is often better than no job. PRWORA, however, is not a jobs policy: it does not create new jobs. It simply assumes, in the absence of any evidence, that people will find work because they are being forced to do so. This presumption arose, in part, because of the modest success of many micro-level welfare-to-work programs that states have piloted during the past five years.(7)"
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Welfare vs. The Welfare State in Canada, 2002.
This paper covers the development and current state of the welfare system in Canada.
1,625 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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Using Ben Carniol's "Case Critical: Challenging Social Services in Canada", as well as Larry Jonston's "Politics: An Introduction to the Modern Democratic State," this paper discusses the welfare state in Canada, the development of it and its shrinkage within the past one hundred year. The author shows evidence that the modern welfare state is shrinking in today's society because of the advancement of right wing politics and the decline of Keynesianism as a solution to the problems of the people of Canada.
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"It is important to remember that Canada did not invent the welfare state, it was merely adopted during the development of the country. It was the adoption of these welfare state ideals, that has lead Canada to develop things such as free public Health Care, Employment Insurance, public education and welfare itself. Ben Carniol (2000) explains the welfare states creation in the terms of industrial England where it first surfaced in the modern form. The creation of a welfare state began when the capitalistic owners of large factories in England were beginning to become disgruntled by the constant visitation of representatives from the numerous charitable organizations that had formed in the country to help the poor and underprivileged survive in the new society that saw the factory owners compete for profits at the expense of the men who worked for them under sometimes extremely harsh conditions. It was agreed upon that some sort of central organization for the collection of charity from the owners would be necessary to ensure that the money was going to charity and not people who had begun cheating the system in order to make money for themselves."
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Welfare In The United States, 2002.
Examines changes in the welfare system.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 8 sources, $ 87.95
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Examines changes in the welfare system. History of welfare, including public charity, settlement houses. Need for greater public assistance during the Great Depression. Broader public assistance. "War on Poverty." Growing welfare debate. Changes in the welfare system in the 1990s. Economic factors; minimum wage. Social and political influences.
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"Introduction
The United States generally considers itself to have one of the strongest economies and highest standards of living in the world. Certainly there is evidence of the large numbers of material goods (and those who can afford them) in the nation's bulging supermarkets and retail malls. Despite this, there continue to be millions of Americans who depend on public assistance in order to remain above the poverty level, and many more who remain in poverty both with and without assistance. This research considers recent changes in the welfare system, including the economic, social and political factors that have influenced a more conservative approach to welfare in recent years.
History of Welfare in the United States
Until the twentieth ..."
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The Unwed Mother and Welfare, 2002.
Examines public policy regarding the welfare system and the single mother.
3,650 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 133.95
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This paper examines the role of the "unwed mother" in respect to the social welfare system. This paper debunks the myth that unwed mothers are an inherent drain on the welfare system and that the benefits to these individuals should be reduced or eliminated to motivate these individuals to work.
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Welfare Reform and the Poor, 2004.
An examination of the welfare reform system to determine whether it is beneficial to the poor or not.
2,021 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper examines both sides of the welfare reform system to attempt to arrive at a factual decision as to whether the reform of the welfare system was good or bad. It is hypothesized that welfare reform was good overall, although it had some areas that have been found to be detrimental to the very people that it was designed to help. In order to study whether this hypothesis is valid, a literature review is conducted to analyze the data that has been collected by others.
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"According to one recently written welfare reform book, there are many things that the country could have done over the years to reform the welfare system. They only did a few of these things, and many of them were not done properly. However, the authors deal with the current welfare reform ideas as well, and their thoughts seem to revolve around one central issue. The current welfare reform limits benefits for a certain period of time. Most of the benefits are for two years or less, which isn?t really very long for someone trying to straighten out their life. Other benefits have a five-year lifetime limit, so people who get themselves off of welfare and then need to go back on it may not get the help that they need, depending on the amount of time they were on it the first time (Goldberg & Collins, 2001)."
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