The act pushed welfare recipients back to work. Welfare put a strain on taxpayers and recipients oddly enough. The problem with the program is that is barely gave enough to recipients to live off of. If they were to go to work, then most of their earned income would be taken away in benefits. This discouraged them to work and collect welfare checks instead. Furthermore, families became even more dependent on welfare. Wisconsin set an excellent model for welfare reform. They set up services such as childcare so that parents could work. Currently child poverty rates declined. African-American child poverty is at the lowest in the nation’s history. In the past five years’ single mothers have moved from welfare into work. After the welfare reform the numbers of recipients fell by more than half. Minimum wage has also increased and the earned income tax credit was made more
The act pushed welfare recipients back to work. Welfare put a strain on taxpayers and recipients oddly enough. The problem with the program is that is barely gave enough to recipients to live off of. If they were to go to work, then most of their earned income would be taken away in benefits. This discouraged them to work and collect welfare checks instead. Furthermore, families became even more dependent on welfare. Wisconsin set an excellent model for welfare reform. They set up services such as childcare so that parents could work. Currently child poverty rates declined. African-American child poverty is at the lowest in the nation’s history. In the past five years’ single mothers have moved from welfare into work. After the welfare reform the numbers of recipients fell by more than half. Minimum wage has also increased and the earned income tax credit was made more