Welfare

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Introduction:
Mimi Abramovitz’s original version of “Everyone is Still on Welfare” appeared as Ronald Reagon launched a historic shift in social welfare policy. A couple of decades have passed and based on new data and more in-depth analysis, this article re-examines its framework of a three tiered social welfare system. There are a few key points that this article discusses, which include whom benefits from and who pays for social, fiscal, and corporate welfare. It concludes that all three welfare systems continue to serve and favor the middle class, wealthy households, and large corporations.
When Ronald Reagon was in office he launched a shift in social welfare policies to favoring the wealthy, during 1981 through 1993. His conservative approach replaced postwar liberalism. There were three major shifts, each stated below.
Massive social program cuts for the middle class and poor.
Lower income taxes for the upper class, including the wealthy and extremely wealthy U.S. citizens.
Much higher spending on the military.
Since nearly two decades have passed, Abramovitz feels it is time to update her concepts and revisit the question of “who is on welfare”?
New and improved data is available to report the flow of money, coming from the government, to various sections of society. Think tanks, advocacy groups, and government agencies provide this information.
Most Americans are wrongly educated about social welfare programs and don’t realize that these programs and federal money go to serving others as well as the poor.
There have been heated debates over tax cuts, devolution, welfare reform, Medicare, privatization of social security, and how to spend the federal budget surplus. Presidents’ George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also have raised questions pertaining to who pays for and who benefits from government spending.
The original article, “Everyone is Still on Welfare”, by Abramovitz has mad...