SOC 120 Lecture 1: Oct 1st, 2018
Document Summary
Welfare is many things : afdc - cash assistance, monthly "welfare checks", now called. Children on welfare went up in the mid 70s and the rate has been decreased greatly in 1996. President bill clinton (d) and congress ( r ) Unmarried teen parents must live with their parents and go to school. Denied many public benefits to legal immigrants. Dependency: prwora was based on neoliberal economic assumptions, that welfare: Reproduces cycle of poverty and becomes a source of poverty itself. Day of reckoning: welfare was framed as a disservice to poor women. Solutions to poverty: marriage: most welfare recipients are single mothers. Marriage must protect against poverty: 2006 welfare reauthorization bill. Funding for projects to promote healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood: 2018 welfare reform. We will pick your food: a stronger safety net. 1996 reform failed to address structural sources of joblessness and poverty.
