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Essay Archive - What is Welfare?
What is Welfare?
What is welfare? According to recent polls, most Americans
consider this nation's welfare system “a failure and a disgrace” (LeVert
10). Most people use the word “welfare” to mean income support or public
assistance programs designed to help people who are already poor. Although
it is geared to poverty-stricken people, families, and children, most
people have benefited from government aid or assistance programs, in other
words, “welfare.”
Poverty in America is a disease for which there is plenty of
treatment, but no known cure. In the essay, “On Dumpster Diving,” ....
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