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defiantbadgirl -> RE: When does helping, turn into enabling? (6/28/2010 1:42:18 PM)
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ORIGINAL: vincentML
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
The problem is there is no incentive to crawl out of the hole. Every time someone proposes a Workfare type plan it is voted down. There is a social conspiracy to keep the poor and lower classes from actually achieving something better.
When you consider that the lower classes are less likely to vote, there is no change in the power structure. Should Workfare every become the law of the land, and should the chances at higher education ever become equal, the social structure of this country would change dramatically.
What about the Welfare Reform Act of 1996? I think it ended welfare as you think you know it, jlf.
The 1996 Welfare Reform Act, officially the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, fulfilled President William Jefferson Clinton's oftrepeated campaign promise "to end welfare as we know it." It replaced the federal program of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), founded in 1935 as part of the Social Security Act, and later known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).
The Welfare Reform Act also contains a social conspiracy. It forced single parents on their way to improving their lives by continuing their education to quit school. I knew a guy in high school who got his girlfriend pregnant. They married and obtained their college degrees while receiving public assistance. They were able to do this before The Welfare Reform Act. Years later, when I was pregnant with my son and temporarily on public assistance, I told them I wanted to do the same thing and was told I couldn't because of the Welfare Reform Act. I was told I had to maintain a full time job while attending college in addition to caring for my YOUNG child. No college and no trade school. The best they could offer me was a three month training program to obtain a $10/hr job. What a joke!! One of my college professors was a social worker. He told how he was forced to kick students off of public assistance because of the Welfare Reform Act. Wouldn't it make more sense to encourage continuing education so not only would they be off assistance, but their kids wouldn't need it when they were ready for college because their parent who now had a real career would be able to afford to pay for their child's college?
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