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Welfare is a temporary support in times of crisis, rather than a way of life. Social critics said welfare was responsible for a permanent underclass of people living off government checks because the incentives to go to work were so weak (Froomkin, Dan). The welf ....

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.... States and even counties are designing their own programs for the poor picking and choosing from approaches they hope will get results. Many of the new approaches require subjective judgments. A human being has to decide when individual recipients are ready for work and should be cut off from assistance. Those responsibilities are falling to welfare caseworkers, who in the past did little more than hand over checks. The old system was often criticized for granting benefits to people who didn’t deserve them and should be working. The new system creates the distinct possibility that people who do deserve assistance will be denied. Since mos ....