War on Welfare
The United States of America... the land of the free and the home of the tax-stricken. The country that is known as “the last superpower in the world” that developed the deadliest weapon on earth, sent the first person to the moon, and was the birthplace of the most powerful man in the world, Bill Gates, has forty million people (which include ten million children) without basic healthcare coverage. (Packet, pg.58)Although this “supernation” boasts of the “American dream,” where the poor become rich overnight, the typical American citizen does not have a “super” lifestyle. Based on the average income of Americans, “one in every five U.S. nonelderly households are poor, one in four young households are poor, and over half of all households headed be a lone parent are poor.” (Packet, pg.1) Though the United States has tried to mimic the welfare systems of that of Europe, the bureaucratic “red tape” and the conflicts that reside between the legislature and executive branches of the government have hindered the progress towards an effective welfare reform policy. In order to understand the progressions towards refining the wounded welfare system of the United States, one must first know what welfare means.
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Approximate Word count = 1458
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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