Controversy over Welfare Recipients
Controversy over welfare recipients
Learning Team D
BCOM/275
Patricia Inman
2/25/2013
Family services, adult services, and adult and family services are the different names to which each state calls families who are in need. Since the 1930s, and the great depression families have needed assistance with many forms of need. Most had little or no income, this creating the welfare assistance program, which was federally government, ran until the mid-1990s. Jobs come and go, and families could go from middle or high class to the bottom of the bottom low class in the blink of an eye. This happens all the time, small towns who are lucky to have some type of factory or large business that gives employment to these people could walk away from the business or sell to a larger business who in turn takes the business into the big city. Doing this causes these small town workers to lose their jobs and could cause them to lose their homes and even their families. Welfare is an important part of assistance, when abused by having more children to get more welfare, or staying single to get more welfare are ways people abuse the system. We ask the question; should welfare recipients be drug tested? We want to learn the pros and cons of this question and overall shine some light on the topic. In the mid-1990s President Clinton passed a law that gave each state their own rights to govern their each and own welfare system. TANF (temporary assistance for needy families), is the grant that the government gives each state to help run their own welfare program. There are just a few eligibilities that must be met for one to receive welfare and each state has the same guidelines to follow as a minimum. The first eligibility is a family or ones net/gross overall income. A size of a family is another, are they married do they have a spouse, and how many children are involved total. Lastly, crisis situations such as; medical emergencies, pregnancy, homelessness, and the unforeseen job
Learning Team D
BCOM/275
Patricia Inman
2/25/2013
Family services, adult services, and adult and family services are the different names to which each state calls families who are in need. Since the 1930s, and the great depression families have needed assistance with many forms of need. Most had little or no income, this creating the welfare assistance program, which was federally government, ran until the mid-1990s. Jobs come and go, and families could go from middle or high class to the bottom of the bottom low class in the blink of an eye. This happens all the time, small towns who are lucky to have some type of factory or large business that gives employment to these people could walk away from the business or sell to a larger business who in turn takes the business into the big city. Doing this causes these small town workers to lose their jobs and could cause them to lose their homes and even their families. Welfare is an important part of assistance, when abused by having more children to get more welfare, or staying single to get more welfare are ways people abuse the system. We ask the question; should welfare recipients be drug tested? We want to learn the pros and cons of this question and overall shine some light on the topic. In the mid-1990s President Clinton passed a law that gave each state their own rights to govern their each and own welfare system. TANF (temporary assistance for needy families), is the grant that the government gives each state to help run their own welfare program. There are just a few eligibilities that must be met for one to receive welfare and each state has the same guidelines to follow as a minimum. The first eligibility is a family or ones net/gross overall income. A size of a family is another, are they married do they have a spouse, and how many children are involved total. Lastly, crisis situations such as; medical emergencies, pregnancy, homelessness, and the unforeseen job
References: Retrieved from; http://www.welfareinfo.org/ Retrieved from; http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-welfare-recipients-be-tested-for-drugs Alvarez, L. (2011, October 24). Florida: Judge Blocks Welfare Testing. Retrieved from http://nytimes.com American Civil Liberties Union. (2008, April 8). Drug Testing of Public Assistance Recipients as a Condition of Eligibility. Retrieved from http://aclu.org Join Together Staff. (2012, February 27). Many States Considering Measures to Require Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients. Retrieved from http://www.drugfree.org Radel, L., Joyce, K., & Wulff, C. (2011, October). Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: Recent Proposals and Continuing Controversies. Retrieved from http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/11/Drug Testing/ib.shtml