GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMICS

Government and Economics

Government and Economics

Introduction

The United States' welfare system is a program that enables needy Americans to sustain themselves and provide for their basic needs, which include shelter, food, and clothing. Programs are aimed at helping people unable to support themselves fully or earn a living; necessities that most people can provide on their own through means of labor. Welfare is designed to aid those people who are incapable of working or obtaining any help from family members or other sources.

Discussion

The conception of the poor distribution of welfare benefits is generated by a need for people to demand social and economic justice, when you see that the wealth that a country has not dealt with awareness. This is seen especially in those countries whose population is aware that there are abundant revenues, but do not see that this alters their individual reality. It is clear that Unites States, in the last two years, is an example of this factor. The mass media such as television news or radio, and newspapers have been in charge of showing the high prices for copper, and stressed that this is good for the country. Then it creates in people the feeling of excessive wealth: most naive citizens, who generally belong to the middle class, lower class, or just the poor, tend to believe that these surpluses should produce national mining produce a radical change from one day to another, becoming a developed country in every sense of the word.

Needy families with children, and especially families headed by single working parents, are the main recipients of welfare benefits, along with retirees and the disabled. Many of them are included simultaneously in several social programs, which, however, do not always allow them to escape from poverty. In addition, there is still too needy families not covered by these programs - it is full of families with children, where parents have low incomes. Thus, despite the large number of programs, various kinds of welfare benefits covered only a part of American families.

Most of the welfare programs emerged in the period after the Second World War. They carried out by federal agencies, State and local governments. The federal government defines the legal rules applicable to all programs approved by the plan and monitors their implementation. From the state budget covered more than half of all spending. State governments organized the execution of programs and participated in their financing. Some welfare benefits are entirely the responsibility of federal agencies that directly make payments, provide tax incentives to beneficiaries and subsidized organizations providing assistance. About half of the program is jointly administered by the federal government and state administration. Individual programs are the states at their own expense. The latter, as a rule, were not associated with the payment of benefits, and the provision of various services. In the provision of services was also attended by non-profit organizations and volunteers. In the 1960-1970-ties observed noticeable progress in the field of welfare benefits for families ...