Welfare is something that concerns me particularly because growing my mother and I had federal housing assistance (section 8) from the time I was 12 years old until I turned 21. My mother struggled to get this assistance for 3 years before her application was reviewed and she got approved.
When I think of welfare I don't know why I automatically think of the struggle my mom had to go through trying to provide me with a roof over my head. Looking more into debates and arguments as to why welfare assistance and other government aids are so hard to get is because maybe some people over used it or abused of it.
I don't want to focus on the good or bad of welfare I just want to understand it completely.
RECAP OF MY THOUGHT PROCESS THROUGHOUT THIS BLOG:

• Should welfare participants be drug tested before receiving government help?
• What states passed the dug testing welfare participants legislation?
• Was the drug testing effective?
• If drugs aren't the problem with people abusing welfare what is?
• what are the job requirements when being on welfare?
• What are the statistics on welfare?
• Who are the ones opposing governmental help and why ?
• Should all welfare participants pay the ultimate price for a handful of those who abuse the governments help ?

This last bullet point brought me to find this webpage called: Welfare weekly
http://www.welfareweekly.com/
 Here I found many articles and debates that have to do with welfare and all the issues that are CURRENTLY surrounding this. One of the issues that is most talked about is how governmental cuts are affecting those that are TRUELY in need of assistance.
Although this page is based on the UK it is interesting to see some of the issues that are happening there are very similar to the welfare crisis happening here in America.