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This 3 page paper discusses the 1996 Welfare Reform Act and its pros and cons as it applied to women/children/families. Examples given. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the ways in which the policies of the past have impacted those most challenged by lack of housing, income, food and employment. Their ample research chronicles the specific changes that
have been made since 1996 and address both the good, the bad and the ugly of the welfare system today, as it impacts families. That the welfare system was badly
in need of an overhaul was not in debate in 1996. The way the system had originally been set up it left very little incentive for those on welfare to
work. If a person became gainfully employed, they lost their Medicaid (healthcare) benefits(Eitzen, Zinn, 404). This was addressed and changed in the new welfare reform that came into being.
However, the bad seems to have outweighed the good, Eitzen insists. In a comparison to other countrys welfare system, the United States falls woefully behind as it addressed children in
poverty. Eitzen and Zinn state that Frances welfare system has managed to drop their percentage rates to six percent for children, whereas the United States with its broad sweeping reforms
only managed twenty one percent(Eitzen, Zinn 404). The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 was thought to have been the reduction and restructuring that the system needed. While it did
remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to mothers in poverty. One of the biggest arguments for
the changes had been that the former welfare system paid mothers to have more children by increasing their benefits as their family grew larger. And, on the pro/con analysis of
the reform, the progressives who had a heavy hand in the restructuring of the system assumed that poor people were not finding work because they were parasitic in nature, preferring
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