fare reform has given states and localities flexibility to address welfare-to-work issues” (Relave 2). The welfare reform project is designed to provide recipients with the training, child care and other services they need to find jobs.Under welfare reform, each state designs its own welfare program. California’s program is called CalWORKS (California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids). Under CalWORKS, those who seek welfare must also find work. Current recipients are entitled to 24 moths of aid. There is a five-year lifetime limit for those who are parents. If welfare recipients have made an effort to find work, but have been unsuccessful after their time limit, they will me moved into community service for up to three years. During this time, they will keep their benefits, but not a collect a salary. After a family has been on aid for five years, they will be provided with child-only grants. As to almost any other rule, there are exceptions to the welfare program, one of which is that it has exemptions on the time limit for people who receive welfare. Some exemptions include teen mothers, disabled welfare recipients, and recipients enrolled in community college programs leading to employment. (Relave)As mentioned earlier, the welfare program of the United States has brought about two opposing viewpoints; one of which is the belief that welfare is very advantageous to certain people. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of [her/him]self and of [her/his] family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond [her/his] control” (Albisa 1). Welfare helps fulfill this right to people who do not have any jobs a...
