Anti Poverty Programs Are We Helping The Poor - 1313 Words

â€Å"Anti-poverty programs: Are we helping the poor?† David Vang Qin Fan Econ 40 9 December, 2014 Throughout history, poverty has always been one of the biggest issues in the United States with the major impacts that it has brought into the economy and standard way of living. Although poverty may be overshadowed by such recent event such as the raise in minimum wages in California, it is still something that society should still be concern about because it can only get worse from here by the way it is progressing in the economy if actions are not being met. Furthermore, currently major factors of poverty are portrayed as the anti-poverty programs that are governmentally funded such as welfare, a program that aid families who†¦show more content†¦Through the article, Mazie (2013) emphasized that when it comes to welfare in America, taxes are some of biggest concern because many of the people who receives these funds from the government’s taxes misuse these programs while hard labor workers have to struggle with low paychecks after tax deductions (Mazie, 2013). This is in fact true because with the more demand for anti-poverty programs due to the increase in poverty, taxes will gradually increase in order to make amends for the losses. With these increases in tax, it will only lead to problem such as higher unemployment rates because many businesses will have to lay off workers in order to make up for the losses in their goods and supplies. In a way these changes lead to great affects on the labor market and demand for labor and workers. Furthermore, Mazie highlighted the fact that he believes that objective of these programs should be towards getting people off their feet or out of poverty and have them strive towards success rather than living off the benefits (Mazie, 2013). Supporting Mazie’s argument, in the article, â€Å"Government’s war on poverty reduction†, from the 2013 studies of the Cato Institute, Michael Tanner, a senior fellow of Cato Institute, and Charles (2013), a research associate of