Research thing

1. I am discussing the welfare state in general and proposing ideas as to where it should go.

2. The strait up statistics and history of welfare are my two most important sets of data because I can utilize both to support my ideas in the most effective ways.

3. Personally from what I have seen, although the welfare system has improved since the 60's it still has a long way to go if we as a people want to make it its most effective. In my mind money is being wasted when it does not need to be.

4. The TANF is the current system the government uses to give money to the states to support their individual welfare systems. The government does this through a series of block grants to give the states as much freedom with it as possible. The amount of money that the government grants is decided by the overall population and the amount of people on welfare (or the percent of the population on welfare).

5. One such wow! moment was when I learned that in Hawaii you can make up to $17.56 an hour solely from welfare. I think that it is kind of ridiculous that someone can make double minimum wage on nothing but welfare. Another such moment that surprised me was when I learned that 38% of welfare recipients are Caucasian. This surprised me because I live in an area where the majority of white people live above the poverty line so I kind of expected that this would apply to the general population. I was obviously wrong.