...Populations in the U.S. Child Welfare System Diane Blanscett BSHS 301 November 1, 2010 Caroline Nyairo MSC, Marriage and Family Therapy Minority Populations in the U.S. Child Welfare System History of Minority Populations During the 1700s and the 1800s, the United States went through political, economic, and environmental upset that caused a large number of orphans. Most of the children roaming the streets were of immigrants who could not care for them because of economic issues or because they were single parent homes. Society had little tolerance for the children. During the mid- 1800s, there was a shift in attitude toward children because of the number of families affected by the Civil War. Compassion and understanding toward the orphans became the mainstream thought. In addition, there was a shift in religious belief, and that led to the belief that children were to be cared for, and sheltered. During the mid-1800s, families who could not take care of their children could take them to a child asylum for a fee. If the parents could not make the monthly payments, the children became wards of the state. Also during this time, there were orphan trains, which would take the children to farms in urban America, thereby alleviating the number of homeless orphans. Most of the children orphaned and homeless were in the minority population of immigrants. U.S. Child Welfare Response Over the last one hundred years, the United States child welfare system has changed. Today...
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...strings attached? Right? Wrong. With welfare, one can become unemployed and get a free check from the government every month, one can also have the government pay for food using food stamps. Crazy, right? What if it was also noted that America spends 72 billion dollars on it every year. With a current debt of 19 Trillion (1:54, February 3rd, 2016), the US just cannot afford any of these programs. Welfare hurts the US and it’s citizens, because the programs hurt the economy, welfare recipients stay on welfare , and there hasn’t been a measurable change in the poverty level. Welfare hurts the economy, the numbers don’t lie.. Debt in the US is at an all time high and there’s no room for more spending. For example, Ed Feulner’s “The Spiraling State of Welfare Spending says, “Under the president’s spending plans, by 2022 we’ll be spending $2.33 on welfare for every $1 we spend on defense. Overall, President Obama plans to spend 12.7 trillion on means-tested welfare over the next decade” (Feulner). If one does the math it comes out to $1,361,673,412,700, or around 1/18 of the US national debt for this year alone. Another example described by Feulner is “According to...
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...Welfare Reform Laura Lee Niehoff POL 201 Instructor: Marion Rogers August 26, 2012 Welfare Reform Government assistance programs have been around for many years. The US welfare program began in the 1930’s during the Great Depression (US Welfare System - Help for US Citizens, 2012). The whole idea behind the welfare program was to give aid to families who had little or no income. The welfare program, in the United States, was originally designed to help provide a minimal level of aid to help maintain the wellbeing of citizens. Previously, the local communities would help the less fortunate. Social groups would give donations of food to struggling families. These groups would also donate clothing and other necessities. Now, the government is the largest provider of these programs. The programs were originally based on helping those unable to work or provide for themselves. Until the 1960’s only disabled, or elderly citizens were qualified to receive aid. Legislation not only changed the recipients eligible for help, but also the help available. Programs such as health care, food stamps, pregnancy assistance, and help for single mothers started to emerge. The next addition to the program was housing benefits. To some, the addition of these new programs made it more enticing to receive aid rather than work. The programs had now become considered easy money. If you were able to show need, you would most likely qualify for benefits. Over the last 80...
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...Welfare Welfare Queen - Bought forward by Ronald Reagan - One of the goals of welfare is to help people leave abusive relationships Criminalizing Poverty - Welfare policies increasingly mandate the intensification of surveillance and the criminalization of welfare recipients. Welfare as fraud “Welfare fraud has become welfare as fraud. Thus poverty, welfare and cr Criminalization of Welfare: -Mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients -Anonymous snitch lines for reporting suspected welfare abuse - “Zero tolerance” for fraud in the form of permanent ineligibility -Biometric fingerprinting. -Welfare is one of the few ways that the state provides some financial support for the work traditionally done by women - Without welfare, mothers who work inside the home are deprived of equal citizenship, for they alone are not paid for their labor - Often poor women have been left out of feminist movement -Equality movements concerned solely with independence for women through paid employment are problematic -the point of welfare is to supper mothers finically for caregiving- but this has gradually been eroded Deserving and undeserving poor -Difference was made between the deserving and the undeserving poor -Basis for classification changes, but the imperative to discover who is worth of aid persist. -Michael Katz; a study made to classify the “impotent” from the “able” bodied poor. These attempts at classification have endured as those...
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...From the origin of the United States, immigration has been crucial for the economic advancement and expansion of the nation. The US truly is a melting pot of many cultures and ideas, and it has benefited greatly from its diversity. However, with a much-reduced demand for unskilled or low-skilled workers, US policy must adapt so that it can better maximize the net economic benefits of immigration. While this probably does not include a universal drop in the number of legal immigrants, it would include the screening of applicants in such a way that preference is given to more economically beneficial candidates. It would also include making families totally responsible for their elderly relatives who migrate to the US, eliminating the refugee portion of immigrants, denying more, but not all, government services to illegal immigrants, controlling the southern border with more manpower and better technology, and establishing a national verification database. The optimal policy from an economic perspective should seek to provide U.S. businesses with the labor they require without placing added burden on the taxpayers. Before specific policies can be addressed, it is crucial that immigrants be separated into four categories: legal, working-age immigrants; legal, elderly immigrants; refugees; and illegal immigrants. These groups are radically different, and they must be addressed differently. Universally cutting legal immigration levels would deprive businesses of labor resources that...
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...Welfare Drug Testing COMM/215 Welfare Drug Testing Welfare was originally designed to help out poor families in need. Throughout the years, there have been issues with people taking advantage of the system. The government has made efforts to try to help welfare recipients to get a job instead of seeing welfare as a lifestyle. The next step government should take is to drug test welfare recipients. If a person has enough money to get his or her drugs; he or she should have enough money to support their family. It is unfair for us tax payers to support other people’s family and addiction. It is clear that drug testing welfare recipients would benefit not only the system, but also recipients themselves, and tax payers. One of the first benefits the system would get by drug testing welfare recipients is decrease the number of people who take advantage of it. I personally know people who get all the government help they can without having a real need. I had a coworker whose husband would sell their food stamps in order to get his marijuana and other drugs. My coworker had 5 kids and would get about $800 worth of food stamps, plus WIC, plus section 8, and plus cash aid. She made sure she only worked enough hours not to go over the low-income limit requirements. Of course hours where available for her, but why would she get tired and work more when she can get more money by not doing much? And just like her, there are many people who do this. I think if a person is healthy he...
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...on United States Welfare: Federally funded and governed US welfare began in the 1930's during the Great Depression. The US government responded to the overwhelming number of families and individuals in need of aid by creating a welfare program that would give assistance to those who had little or no income. The US welfare system stayed in the hands of the federal government for the next sixty-one years. Welfare system reform became a hot topic in the1990's. Bill Clinton was elected as President with the intention of reforming the federally run US Welfare program. In 1996 the Republican Congress passed a reform law signed by President Clinton that gave the control of the welfare system back to the states. The United States provides many different Welfare programs to help meet the needs of citizens with lower incomes and also programs that are intended to help citizens progress out of their current living situations. Some programs are common knowledge, but there are also other programs that most people don’t are under the Social Welfare umbrella. Why is Social Welfare a Social Problem? Social Welfare is a social problem because they are government programs citizens are forced to pay into whether they support it or not, limiting their choice of how they want their money to be used. Social Welfare is also a program that supports thousands of individuals and families who may not be able to support themselves. There is great debate on whether social welfare programs should be...
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...Persuasive Essay Jamarcus Allen COMM215 August 25, 2014 Yolanda Harding Persuasive Essay Welfare was originally designed to help out poor families in need. Throughout the years, there have been issues with people taking advantage of the system. The government has made efforts to try to help welfare recipients to get a job instead of seeing welfare as a lifestyle. The next step government should take is to drug test welfare recipients. If a person has enough money to get his or her drugs; he or she should have enough money to support their family. It is unfair for us tax payers to support other people’s family and addiction. It is clear that drug testing welfare recipients would benefit not only the system, but also recipients themselves, and tax payers. One of the first benefits the system would get by drug testing welfare recipients is decrease the number of people who take advantage of it. I personally know people who get all the government help they can without having a real need. I had a coworker whose husband would sell their food stamps in order to get his marijuana and other drugs. My coworker had 5 kids and would get about $800 worth of food stamps, plus WIC, plus section 8, and plus cash aid. She made sure she only worked enough hours not to go over the low-income limit requirements. Of course hours where available for her, but why would she get tired and work more when she can get more money by not doing much? And just like her, there are many people who...
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...Amanda Lucas May 24, 2010 University Of Phoenix Dettlaff, A. j., Earner, L., & Phillips, S. d. (2009). Latino children of immigrants in the child welfare system. Children and Youth Services Review, 31(7), 775-783. doi: This is an excellent article that covers information about Latino immigrants and the child welfare system. Some key Points in this article were: challenges faced by children and families upon immigration, the methods behind Latino immigrants, and the results of different studies based on Latino immigrants. This is an interesting article because we all have our personal opinions on immigrants as a whole but after reading this article it gives us an understanding of what people go through, why immigrants do come to the United States and lately what happens to the children when things go wrong. Latino families are the most affected by poorer outcomes than other minorities. Latinos face on a daily outcome language challenges, loss of income, broken families, not being able to adapt to the United States, which put them as an outsider to people. Immigrants find their children to have poorer health, and fewer benefits such as cash assistance, health benefits, food stamps, and health insurance. This is also a concern for the ones who are full citizens and are not immigrants. Latinos come over to the US because they want better lives for their children and sometimes it does not matter where we live because if a family is broken or do not have control on their...
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...I’m writing my paper over welfare so that I can tell you how it all began and why it began also saying how it’s made an impact on people’s lives back in the day and even today. Welfare began in the 1930s in the United States after the great depression happened, welfare was brought into the system due to the lives of which people was living and how bad they were suffering to survive every day. You see welfare was and is made for people who can’t take care of themselves and their children they the little things to help them for example food stamps, wic and etc. These are some of the c common things that are used today and even back in the olden days see you would have to be 18 years of age to apply for any of this because you are considered an adult and could be charged with fraud if something was to happen but other than that...
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...The return of Reagan's 'welfare queen' New laws to make welfare claimants pay for drug tests cruelly exploit the resentments of struggling middle-class Americans Florida Governor Rick Scott is poised to fulfill a "top priority" campaign pledge and sign legislation requiring the state's approximately 58,000 welfare recipients to pay for their own random drug tests. The fiscal hawk and governor was once the head of Columbia/HCA, which perpetrated the biggest Medicare fraud in US history, and he opposed the creation of a database to track heavy prescription narcotics like Oxycontin because it would be an "invasion of privacy". This in Florida, our nation's undisputed capital of illegal prescription drugs, where dope is slung out of strip mall "pill mills". But I digress – and it's only the second paragraph. "If you go apply for a job today, you are generally going to be drug-tested," Governor Scott told Central Florida News 13 in October 2010. "The people that are working are paying the taxes for people on welfare. Shouldn't the welfare people be held to the same standard?" Thirty states took up bills to mandate drug testing for "the welfare people" during the 2011 legislative session, which is now in most states drawing to a merciful close: legislators were otherwise busy restricting abortion, worker and immigrant rights, while liberalising the right to bear arms on college campuses and destroy the environment; Florida and Texas have passed legislation making it harder for...
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...| Public Welfare Fraud | | | | 12/13/2011 | | Public Welfare Fraud The Declaration of Independence provides Americans with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When our fore fathers created this nation they knew that there would be need for amending and adding to the constitution to suit changing and sometimes challenging times. As a society we have always looked for ways to advance and prosper; from the inception of our government we have had a successful blueprint in creating a country that most would try to emulate. Somewhere in our quest for superiority and perfection we have overlooked the fundamental values that we were built on. In recent years our economic system has been damaged to the extent that we are seeing some of the worst unemployment rates since the great depression. With the population growing by leaps and bounds and a low amount of jobs being created, a large portion of our society is looking to the government for help. That help has proven to be a blessing for some, a hurdle for others and a free ride for the dishonest. In 1930, the United States Welfare Program was enacted in response to the financial effect of the great depression and to help individuals who had lost their jobs, homes, income and health insurance. After the great depression was over, the government maintained the program and continues to help people that are having difficulties supporting themselves and their families. Throughout...
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...The Buck Stops Here: Not a Handout, a Hand Up Sharon Nakken Kaplan University CM220: College Composition ll Thousands of welfare investigators across the nation report that only about 2% - 3% of welfare cases involve fraud (Barron, 2012). That is such a small percentage. Could fraud on that small scale really be significant? After closer examination, the significance becomes much clearer. If 2% - 3% of welfare cases are fraudulent, that means between 785,000 to 1.2 million families are receiving welfare illegally (Barron, 2012). That ends up costing taxpayers between 9.0 – 13.5 billion dollars each year (Barron, 2012). That small percentage turns into a very large number of dollars spent annually on welfare recipients who should not be receiving these benefits (Barron, 2012). The welfare system in America today is once again in need of reform. Conditions such as mandatory drug testing, entry into an educational program, and strict time limits need to be placed on individuals who wish to receive welfare. In 2007 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reported that 20% of families receiving welfare claimed to have used illegal drugs at least once in the last year, while 5% said they had an ongoing drug habit (Vitter, 2011). Some who oppose the random drug testing requirement say that it does nothing more than single out the poor and underprivileged. Deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Vanita Gupta claims “Mandatory drug testing of those receiving...
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...THE FORGOTTEN ANIMAL ISSUE: The Big Mac Chapter 5 in Ethics Into Action:1 By Peter Singer By the early 1990s, McDonald’s restaurants were serving up more than one billion eggs and half a billion pounds of beef a year. That volume, and the icon status of the hamburger chain, made McDonald’s an obvious target for bringing about change for farm animals. If McDonald’s were to give one-hundredth of one per cent of their gross revenues to fund a research center dedicated to finding alternatives to the stressful confinement of factory farming, that could do even more to reduce suffering than the similar percentage that Revlon had given to the search for alternatives to the Draize test. But McDonald’s has a reputation for having a corporate culture that is aggressive and politically well to the right. It was never going to be easy to get them to take animals seriously. Henry’s opening move was a low-key meeting with McDonald’s General Counsel and Executive VicePresident, Donald Horwitz, held in February 1989 at the offices of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The purpose of the meeting was to ask McDonald’s to investigate the effect of factory farming on the animals whose meat and eggs they used, and then to use these findings to develop less stressful ways of raising these animals. Horwitz seemed remarkably ready to cooperate. He agreed that Mcdonald’s would survey its suppliers in the United States and Canada, and take a look at the situation in Europe...
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...The Misunderstanding of Welfare “Let the welfare of the people be ultimate law.”- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Philosopher When the word “welfare” is mentioned there a vision of poor individuals who have been laid off or single mothers who cannot provide for their families. Society unjustly makes negative assumptions about welfare recipients. Many people believe a person on welfare is wasting taxpayer’s money. The use of language is one of the greatest necessities of life, and a key to our success. A single word, like “welfare,” can have many different meanings, yet to some it generates a negative perspective and a stereotype of a group of people. According to Gloria Naylor “words themselves are innocuous; it is consensus that gives them true power” (Peterson 234). The primary reason the United States Constitution was established was to promote the general welfare of the people, and for the government to preserve the welfare of the people. This essay will explain the origin of the word “welfare” and will consider the use of the word regarding employees’ welfare, the lesser known corporate welfare, and the welfare state. In particular, the term itself engenders such notions as health, happiness and prosperity. Originally, welfare meant being healthy and having prosperity, not necessarily enjoying wellbeing or being happy. If you study economics, “welfare or wellbeing refers to a status of emphasizing happiness and contentment, which includes one's living standards” (McQuillin...
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