Social Welfare Final Project

1. Social Welfare Final Project Presented by Tracey A. DeNio

2. Self Supporting – Live Off Welfare • Do people in the following groups tend to be self-supporting or do they tend to live off welfare? • Whites • Blacks • Hispanics • Jews • Asians

3. Literature Review • Negotiating the discourse of race within the United States welfare system authored by Vicki Lens and Colleen Cary examines the under-explored aspect of the worker-client relationship and how people of color are further disadvantaged. They further examine the welfare bureaucracies in the United States and the history of disentitlement, or the denial of aid to eligible people through excessive and obstructive procedural demands. • A Review of the Racial Biases of Social Welfare Policies written by Monique Constance-Huggins researches two sociological theories: social construction and critical race to examine the disparity between whites and blacks within the welfare system. Under the current system (TANF), whites exit welfare faster than blacks, and for those who leave welfare, blacks are more likely to be forced off the system.

4. Literature Review • Factors Predicting Family Reunification for African American, Latino, Asian and White Families in the Child Welfare System authored by Alice M. Hines, Peter A. Lee, Kathy L. Osterling, and Laurie Drabble examines the reunification of children in the welfare system and extends this research to include child, family and system-related factors to include Latino and Asian families. • Redefining Citizenship Services: The Case For Jewish Communal Involvement written by Susan Adams and Judith Bernstein-Baker, MSW., ESQ. examines the early hardships of Jewish immigrants on naturalization assistance and the their right to Welfare Services in Philadelphia. • Present Status And Future Trends In The Southern White Family authored by Bernice Milburn Moore is an examination of southern white families primarily in the south/east region of the United States and their social and economic struggles in decades past.

5. Works Cited • Adams, Susan and Judith Bernstein-Baker. 2002. “Redefining Citizenship Services: The Case For Jewish Communal Involvement.” Journal of Jewish Communal Service 78 (4):245-53. • Constance-Huggins, Monique. 2011. “A Review of the Racial Biases of Social Welfare Policies.” Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 21:871-887. • Hines, Alice M., Peter A. Lee, Kathy L. Osterling, and Laurie Drabble. 2006. “Factors Predicting Family Reunification for African American, Latino, Asian and White Families in the Child Welfare System.” Journal of Child and Family Studies 16:275-89. • Lens, Vicki and Colleen Cary. 2010. “Negotiating the Discourse of Race within the Unites States Welfare System.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 33 (6):1032-1048. • Milburn-Moore, Bernice. 1938. “Present Status and Future Trends in the Southern White Family.” Social Forces16 (3):406-10.

6. Data Source Used • Where I got my data

7. Data Analysis • I collected my data from the General Social Survey (GSS). • I then copy and pasted that data to an excel spreadsheet. • Hi-lighted FAREHSPS, FAREBLKS, FAREJEWS, FAREWHTS, FAREASNS, FARESO each individually and created a pivot table for each one. • After each individual pivot table I created a graph labeling each one. • For presentation purposes I highlighted all six independent variables within my excel spreadsheet to create one pivot table and one graph comparing all six independent variables to the one dependent variable which is: Do people in the following groups tend to be self-supporting or do they tend to live off welfare?

8. Data Analysis

9. Data Analysis

10. Data Summary • Based on my findings each group studied shows a greater attitude towards being self-supporting rather than living off welfare. • This demonstrates that the stigma associated with these outgroups as preferring to be socially dependent is not an accurate opinion.