In the assigned reading article The Shrinking Welfare State: The New Welfare Legislative and Families, by D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn the issue that the authors are trying to deliver is how the welfare reform is not actually helping any of the people that require the assistance. It also explains how the legislatures are not providing any solutions for how the people that are currently on welfare can overcome their financial status. I strongly agree with the majority of the issues represented in this reading.
I feel that most of the people who are on welfare today do not want to work and are comfortable staying home and collecting a "paycheck" from our government. As an employed taxpayer, I am disgusted that I pay for someone to stay home because they do not feel like working. …
