Welfare | The High Value of Welfare Benefits Keeps the Poor on Welfare
In the following viewpoint, James L. Payne contends that generous welfare benefits offer recipients a greater financial reward than full-time work, enticing many single mothers onto the welfare rolls. According to Payne, welfare payments promote idleness and dependency by undermining the social disapproval and painful consequences of dysfunctional behaviors like drug addiction and unwed childbearing. As a result, social norms have shifted to the point where welfare recipients are no longer ashamed of relying on the government to support their irresponsible lifestyles. Payne is the author...
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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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