Welfare

Welfare is a public assistance program developed to help people who are unable to support themselves fully. It provides a minimum amount of economic security to people whose incomes do not meet a sufficient standard of living. People who receive welfare include elderly people, people with mental or physical disabilities, and those needing help to support dependent children. People in the United States most commonly use the term welfare to refer to government-funded programs that …

…would need welfare. And more people could hold their head up high with an education, and no dependence on government funds. ? Works Cited Berkowitz, Edward D. America’s Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Regan. The American Moment Series. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Cloward, Richard A., ed. Regulating the Poor The Functions of the Public Welfare. London: Vintage Books, 1993. “Welfare” Microsoft Encyclopedia Encarta 2000. Microsoft Electronic Publishing. Welfare.” World Almanac and Book of Facts. Funk & Wagnalls Corporation. 1995