Social Work-C

Assistance needs to be based on need, not eligibility. You can give a man a fish and he will have food for today, but if you teach him to fish, you can feed him for a lifetime. They have begun providing job training, job search assistance, and even work requirements but if the person does not want to improve, the efforts will be wasted. As long as the person makes more on welfare, they will not see any reason to change. They have added time limits to put an end to career welfare recipients, but the person will not be able to get and keep a job if they don’t make the effort to do it. Many people put in the minimum required to keep a job and trust the lottery will one day pay the rest. Those who are able to work need to be required to work to receive assistance. The government has always had work requirements but they have been easy to avoid. They are strengthening the requirements by including non-paid assignments but need to make  sure it is meaningful work that will result in employment, not just make work. I was an employment counselor for a federal program and made sure assignment were productive but after I left, some of those in the program were no longer being assigned to productive jobs.