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There should be penalties for people who aren't looking for work or improving their skills. Education should be encouraged to help people on welfare be able to take control of their lives and not have to use welfare any longer. There also should be better incentives to work, not losing all benefits at a certain point. As people earn more money their welfare should decrease, but the total money they receive should increase to provide a reason for them to work more. There should also be more checks to make sure welfare recipients are looking for work or improving their education and if they aren't they should stop receiving benefits. Welfare needs to be thought of as a short term help not a long term solution for unemployed people.

It is inefficient to pay people to be lazy and not work. If they did not get pay they would be much more likely to work harder at finding a job and be less picky about where they worked. Welfare should be used when people are in between jobs not to encourage long periods of unemployment. When welfare recipients can't find work for a long time there should be a system in place to find a job for them. Then they would be employed again and need less or no money from welfare to support them. These changes could improve the welfare system, the living conditions of many lower income Americans, and save taxpayers a lot of money.

"Why the Current Welfare System Doesn't Work and What Can Be Done to Fix It."