Welfare | Religious Organizations Can Reduce Poverty
The 1996 welfare reform bill includes a Charitable Choice provision that allows churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) to contract with state governments to administer welfare programs in their communities, as long as beneficiaries are not required to participate in religious activities. President George W. Bush has plans to expand Charitable Choice to allow FBOs to play a greater role in providing assistance to the needy. Ronald J. Sider contends in the following viewpoint that FBOs can succeed in reducing poverty where government welfare programs have failed by providing...
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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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