Welfare Administration refers to various social, economic and health program that was designed to improve the needs of U.S population. The programs vary in eligibility requirements and are provided by various organizations on a federal, state, local and private level. They help to provide food, shelter, education, healthcare and money to U.S. citizens through primary and secondary education, subsidies of college education, unemployment disability insurance, subsidies for eligible low-wage workers, subsidies for housing, food stamps, pensions for eligible persons and health insurance programs that cover public employees. The largest of this program are social security system, Medicare and the housing programs. Welfare has come to be associated with poverty. Additionally, blacks have overwhelmingly dominated images of poverty over the last few decades.
Welfare distribution is a topic that greatly affects various races, ages and social ethnic group in America. I strongly believe that welfare is not equally distributed among various groups in America. Though the constitution has been amendment over years ago I believe in these days and times that people should be treated the same and be given adequate and equal access to the U.S welfare system, to me it seems as though things are based on black and white and not in actualization.
Researches have shown that in various aspects of American lives people are treated based on their race. According to research conducted by NAIC (National Information clearinghouse). “It was gathered that though African American constituted 15% child population of the United States in 1999, but they accounted for 45% of the children in substitute care. In contrast, Caucasian children, who constituted 60% of the U.S child population, accounted for only 36% of the children in and out of home care”. Various researches also show that neither different ethnical groups nor racial backgrounds receive dissimilar treatments.
Although my own research is not thorough, I know most people would agree with me. The media shows us that African- America is treated differently from the white (Caucasian) counterpart when it comes to the welfare system. In this BET TV series “everybody hates Chris “. Chris was about to graduate high school and go to college, but the college he wanted to attend was determined by his family’s status, the teacher informed him that the school would have to send a welfare officer to their house to see if he would qualify to go to this particular college. The welfare officer that visited Chris was very biased and he didn’t represent the system very well because he was focused on the environment Chris lived in and not what Chris had to offer. Also numerous researches have shown that urban low income parents and minorities are greatly investigated more often than others for child abuse and neglect.
There are various programs that are aimed in providing assistance to various low income families; these programs provide noncash benefits to low-income families. These include Food Stamps, Medicaid, low-income housing assistance, and a host of other programs including job training, Head Start, and a variety of food assistance programs other than Food Stamps. There are over 85 different programs in the U.S that provides non income cash benefits to low income families, the most largely used are food stamps, Medicaid and housing. These programs are meant to be allocated equally not in regard to race nor ethnics backgrounds, but reverse is the