Seniors and people with disabilities are entitled to public assistance programs like Social Security, SSDI or SSI.
Generally speaking, those who are most vulnerable to poverty in this nation are women, people of color, and their children. While the poverty rate among black people ( 27% as of 2014 Census estimates) is typically second only to Native Americans, black poverty in 2015 was less than one-fourth of U.S. In that view, federal government should be as small as possible (at least in terms of non-military spending), privatized where possible, and certainly not in the business of bailing out those at the bottom.Īnd who are always at the bottom? The commonly held belief for at least the past several decades is that most poor people are black and that most black people are poor. Claims of welfare reform’s success are equally false today.įalse because they derive from a fundamental opposition to government aid for the poor. This idea was false then people in poverty largely had no interest in staying on welfare.
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The thinking behind their 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act – so-called “welfare reform” – was essentially this: “the free ride is over.” In the minds of these policymakers (and many voters as well), decades of government “handouts” weren’t helping the poor but encouraging a life of lazy comfort on the taxpayers’ dime. By Emily Cleath on Septemin Barriers to Benefits, Blog Twenty years ago last month, President Bill Clinton and Congress ended welfare as we knew it.
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