Putting Welfare to work

Decreasing? That never sounds good in any situation. After more than ten years of welfare reform and decreasing numbers of TANF cases, more people would argue for going back to the old no-strings-attached cash assistance program.. The number of people receiving welfare benefits has plummeted. More poor single mothers are working. Many families use food stamps,to help needy individuals and families with incomes below certain levels. Child support collections have increased. Yet poverty persists.43 percent of those living in poverty took in income equal to half or less of $19,350. About 2.5 million families have left the welfare program, and by getting many of them into the labor force, TANF has successfully moved them toward long-term self-sufficiency.While admitting that the jobs are often low-paying, advocates stress that as workers gain skills and experience, their earnings will increase.Supporters acknowledge that some people, especially single mothers, have fallen through the cracks. That's why, they say, the government should enact stricter work require­ments and encourage marriage for those with children through efforts such as funding marriage skills courses and divorce reduction programs.

In my opinion i think everyone can work. I think welfare should go to the needist families. Evan though families are very needy and need help i still think a person in the house hold can work. Teenagers have the ability to work, go to school, and have a social life and still can do better than families who need welfare. Sometimes i think that families who are on welfare, food stamps sometimes they are just to lazy or think they can't get a job cause what they are going though.

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Manhunt on for suspect in cop shootings

On Monday police went searching for a man that killed four police officer. Before the shooting Maurice threaten police that he was going to kill them. Authorities were summoned to the Leschi area about 8:45 p.m. Sunday after a tip that Clemmons was dropped off in the area. The police blocked off the streets and had neighbors lock their doors. The police also made an alert the the University of Washington on edge.Clemmons was given a 95-year prison sentence.
This is what our world has came too having killers on the run. It's pretty scary thing to think about. It's funny/sad to think about that the cops were killed in a coffee shop.

David Hasselhoff hospitalized

Hasselhoff was hospitalized for two days. his attorney Mel Goldsman would not disclose the nature of his illness. His ex wife was put into jail for a DUI and was released and taken home by one of her friends. I believe that he was taking pills and they didn't mix well. I think i heard that happened befor to him. I'm so tired of all ways hearing about hot shot celebertys going to the hospital or going to jail.

Scores arrested in wildlife poaching raids

More than 2 tons of ivory has been seized and more than 100 people arrested in an international operation targeting wildlife crime in eastern Africa, Interpol announced Monday.Shops and markets in the six countries were inspected and raided, resulting in the seizure of ivory, weapons and ammunition and the confiscation of vehicles.
This is just weird for me because i really don't know anything about Poaching. If the law states no poaching then no poaching the people that got arrested deserves it.

With failing record, Weis did the unthinkable: He became likeable

Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis was fired on Monday after compiling a mediocre 35-27 record in five years. He was paid alot of money for the little games he and his team won. Coach Charlie Weis didn't play for Notre Dame but went to school there. His life was falling apart he was the most made fun of man in football.

Weis always blamed himself first. He did not complain that Notre Dame fans were living in the 1940s or that the academic standards at the school were too high.

I really don't know anything about football or coaching so i don't have a opinon. If it was a good choice to fire him well i hope they did the right thing and the next coach will help win games.

Missing boy spent 11 days wandering New York subways

A 13-year-old teenager with Asperger's syndrome spent 11 days in October wandering New York's vast subway system until a police officer recognized him from a missing persons' poster, according to police and the youth's mother.The mother said that she contacted police when her son went missing, but received little help. Asperger's, a developmental disorder that affects the ability to socialize and communicate.

I believe that if a child has some kind of a disorder the parents should have more security on there kids than any other kids. When they new this child was missing don't they put out a amber alert? why wasn't it announced. The police department need to be held accountable for this one.
But I'm glad he was found

Issue #1 Comprehensive vs.Incremental Health Care Reform

President Bush's health care reform proposal has intensified the current debate over whether the U.S. health care system requires incremental or comprehensive reform. But some analysts say that those terms are merely political instruments in a much broader debate on U.S. social policy. Supporters of providing universal health care argue that the best way to ensure access to medical care is overhaul the financing of the nation's health care system.They think that decades of government funded provided programs like Medicare and Medicaid have contributed to the increased costs of medical care. Many of the supporters for the universal health care say that the government could become a single purchaser, acting on behalf of all patients. Another proposal for comprehensive reform relies on mandating government subsidies in which the poor receive tax credits or money that enables them to purchase insurance.Critics of comprehensive reform do not oppose the idea of health care for all. Changes such as enhancing tax-free Health Savings Accounts and offering tax deductions for people who buy their own health insurance. By making consumers pay greater shares of health care insurance and medical expenses from their own pockets, these policymakers believe that the market will naturally rein in medical costs.


In my opinion i think that the health care is set up to help the elderly people now whats going to happen when my generation gets older? I believe we have a choice to either have it for our self or not. I have noticed that some college kids rather not have health care. They rather wait when their older it is much needed when we are older because we are more liable to get sick. My view on health savings accounts, I don't like the idea. I don't want to be forced to put so much of each of my paychecks into a government account each month. But i no who good it feels to take the opportunity that is invaluable to my family. I'm not sure were i stand with all this yet it really hasn't affected my family. Maybe when I'm older i can understand it more.









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