For some poor women, the welfare check has been the key to escaping domestic violence. Cutting welfare only increases their economic dependence on men, who if threatened by seeing their partner get ahead, may use coercion and violence to prevent them pursing employment, education, or training. More than half of battered women stay with their abusers because they cannot support themselves and their children in any other way. The level of economic resources available to an abused women is the best indicator of whether or not she will leave here abuser once and for all. Support The Family Violence Option of the new federal law which allows states to temporarily waive the rule that would place recipients faced with violence at home in harms way.
Welfare promotes irresponsible behavior.
Helps, does not punish recipients. Welfare destroys community life. Welfare sustains communities and local economies. The poor spend nearly all their dollars on basic goods and services. Cutting welfare can lead landords to default on property taxes, food stores to lay off workers, and neighborhood economies to crumble.