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Families and requiring that recipients begin to work after two years of receiving these payments. Such measures were intended to decrease welfare dependence: The House Ways and Means Committee stated that the goal of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was to "reduce the length of welfare spells by attacking dependency while simultaneously preserving the function of welfare as a safety net for families experiencing temporary financial problems." You could begin this section by briefly detailing the political emergence of welfare policies in general, and then discuss different presidential administrations' policies towards either (inadvertently) promoting welfare dependency or attempts to decrease such dependency. In fact, you could create a new subsection in the article to discuss the history of welfare dependency. In this section, you could also include relevant national media coverage throughout the past several decades that have addressed welfare reform measures in relation to welfare dependency. Potential articles to cite include:
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available." What alternatives are available? What evidence is there that welfare-dependent recipients are not pursuing these alternative to no avail? Stating that welfare-dependent recipients are doing nothing to improve their situation is a bold claim that must be cited, along with information about what can be done, and those that are trying to improve their situation. Like the other sections, the popular culture section could be drawn out to include various assumptions/stereotypes/portrayals of welfare-dependent recipients, and then a discussion of the sources and accuracy of each.
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greetings JuliaK, whilst its true you cant have a talk page without the corresponding article, you also cant have an article page that doesnt have any content. for the moment i have replaced the speedy tag with a tag indicating the page is under construction. this should buy you a few days, but at
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Hello, I am an undergraduate student from UCSD. As part of my assignment, I will be giving feedback regarding two questions: A. Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?; and G. Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
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the lived experience of welfare dependency, from the recipients' perspective, instead of relying on information from the providers' perspective. Qualitative studies may be of use here. As it is lengthened, a more detailed organizational scheme may become necessary.
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