The negative aspects that once accompanied welfare programs and those who relied upon them, simply does not exist to the same degree that it once did. This, is very unfortunate and leads to the pessimism that the welfare program can ever afford to reform itself completely so that only those who are in the most desperate needs, and which is to no fault of their own, require temporally help from the government. By 1994, more than 15% of every child in America was receiving some form of government assistance.
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
President Clinton
Women like Rose Laird, an 89 year old widow who is living in Chicago and who lived during the Depression. “My husband was off in Europe during the war and my mother was sick with cancer and I was assigned to take care of her. I worked but did not make enough money to care for my family. I received welfare payments to the total of $521. 19. After the war, I paid back the total. I hated being on welfare but there was really nothing at the time, that I could do to remedy the situation.
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