Welfare | The Government Should Discourage Welfare Dependency
In the following viewpoint, Charles Murray asserts that in order to encourage welfare mothers to change their behavior and join the workforce, government must ensure that remaining on public assistance offers a lower standard of living than low-wage work does. Although politicians talked tough about ending the entitlement to welfare during the passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill, the pressure on recipients to get jobs has eased, and people are finding loopholes in the complex welfare laws. For the increasingly unmotivated and unreceptive clients still on the rolls, welfare remains a...
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Does Welfare Encourage Dependence?
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Chapter 2: Is Abuse of the Welfare System a Serious Problem?
- Chapter 2 Preface
- Welfare Fraud Is Widespread
- Insufficient Welfare Benefits Encourage Fraud
- The Government Must Enforce Child Welfare Payments
- Noncustodial Fathers Should Not Be Required to Pay Child Support
- Refugees Deserve Welfare Assistance from the Government
- Refugees Should Be Discouraged from Accepting Welfare
- Chapter 2 Periodical Bibliography
- Chapter 3: Can Private Efforts Replace the Welfare System?
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Chapter 4: How Should Welfare Be Reformed?
- Chapter 4 Preface
- The Government Should Discourage Welfare Dependency
- Welfare Recipients Need More Government Assistance
- Work Requirements and Government Subsidies Will Reduce Poverty
- Work Requirements Harm Poor Mothers
- Welfare Policies Should Discourage Out-of-Wedlock Births
- Welfare Policies Should Not Promote Marriage
- Chapter 4 Periodical Bibliography
- For Further Discussion
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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