Recipients must go through a complicated process that determines whether the applicants deserve aid. The Family Support Act of 1988 requires most welfare recipients whose children are over the age of three to participate in state-approved work, education or training programs. Preliminary evidence suggests that the effects of the law will be trivial. Eliminating or even reducing poverty has proven a difficult task for the nation. However, providing the education, training, child care, and other support required to get women off welfare is more expensive than keeping them on welfare.
Hunger remains a problem in America.
The national government provides benefits of two types. An example is Medicare, which provides equal benefits to wealthy and poor Americans. So far we have concentrated on how policy is made by our institutions of government. Congress, the executive branch, and the courts all formulate policy. B. A useful way to conceive of the policymaking process is to think of it as a cycle.