My Views of Single Mothers and Welfare.
Over the first few years, the 1996 welfare reform has been .
a success and more than anyone ever imaged. This has reduced .
caseloads and also freed up extra funds for the state to use .
towards education and other projects concerning the state's .
communities. The reforming of welfare reform is now more .
capiable of serving the people who may need further assistance, .
especially to help the women and children that may have gotten .
lost in the shuffle of paperwork and are facing the risk of losing .
their safety net.
I believe poor people are not poor because the rich high .
class people are keeping them from attaining the dream of the .
middle-class life. Poor people are in poverity because they have .
made bad choices in life, and they will continue to make bad .
choices until we give them a sense of responsibility so they can .
stand on their own two feet. With the welfare reform I believe .
people are having to take responsibility for their own actions.
Last year, I was a part of Habitat for Humanities, and I had .
taken my son along with me into the ghetto to clean up a park for .
the neighborhood children. When we got there my son looked at .
me and asked, "How can they let people live like this?" instead of .
"Why do people choose to live like this?".
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No one sneaks into the projects under the cover of darkness .
to break windows, scatter garbage, spray paint on the walls with .
profanities or throw old furniture into the front yard. It's a choice, .
and it's a choice that shows why they live in poverty. Even if we .
threw millions of dollars toward solving poverty, we would still .
end up with uneducated and lazy people. I feel the only way to start .
solving poverty is to educate people and teach them some sort of .
trade, instead of giving them hand outs. It has been said, "unskilled .
adults almost always have unemployment rates at least twice the .
national average.