What Is Welfare?

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to $7 billion in 1987, and
only about 4 million of 10 million eligible households receive federal
rental assistance of any kind (Long 29).
In the essay, “A Nation of Welfare Families,” Stephanie Coontz
discusses her belief that all families in American history have depended on
the legislative, judicial, and social structures set up by the government
(Coontz 994). The suburban family of the 1950s was far more dependent on
government assistance than any so-called underclass family of today (Coontz
995). Federal GI benefit payments, available to forty percent of the male
population between the ages twenty and thirty-four, permitted a whole
generation of men to expand their education and improve their job with The
National Defense Education Act (Coontz 996). Government spending was
largely responsible for the new highways, sewer systems, utility services,
and traffic control programs that expanded the suburbs. In the postwar
period, the Federal Housing Authority, ...

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