nd are having trouble finding one. Welfare provides assistance against economic insecurity through government programs. For instance, it provides monthly welfare checks and food stamps, vouchers used for buying food, for welfare recipients. In addition, the welfare program offers job opportunities as well as job training and education. Limitations to the welfare program, such as the imposition of time limits and work requirements, motivates some recipients to seek jobs. The welfare system tries to help people reach economic self-sufficiency by “helping recipients to stay employed and improve the quality of jobs over time through higher wages, better benefits, and greater job security” (Relave 4). It is up to each recipient to either keep their jobs or get back on welfare. Unfortunately, not every individual living on welfare is willing to work. Some like the idea of not having to work while still receiving monthly checks. These people take advantage of our government programs. People like this become dependent on the program, and take advantage of it as much as possible. Without given certain limitations to receiving welfare benefits, “nearly 65 percent of the people on welfare at any given time will be on the program for eight years or longer” (Tanner 1). Similarly, “children raised in families on welfare are seven times more likely to become dependent on welfare than are other children” (Tanner 1). Also, welfare can lead to illegitimacy. Based on statistics, “there is strong evidence that directly links the availability of welfare with the increase in out-of-wedlock births” (Tanner1). In addition to dependence and illegitimacy, “the ready access to a lifetime of welfare and free social service programs is a major contributory fact to the crime problems we face today” (Tanner 1). Welfare can destroy the family structure, for example, by replacing the supportive...
