I am interested in this research question because this is a topic that has been a problem for a long time and I would like to see it fixed. My personal experience with this research question and how it affects my values personally has been since I was little. My mom was straight out of high school with a low paying job out of a grocery store. She was a single mom that needed government help. We received government help while she still worked to make ends meet for her and I. Now she is married and her and my father both have jobs we make a greater than enough amount to not need government help but we would better off receiving free things and not having to work for them. It just makes us upset to see those who do not try to make their lives better using our money given to them to do nothing. What makes me qualified to write on this topic is that I have been under government assistance before, even if I can not necessarily remember. Other than that I am not qualified I use other information to build on my bias to state what I feel to be the problem in today's time.

My first source that I chose is the Informative article. The central claim behind this article is about the flaws in the government welfare system and how people on this welfare are using these flaws to get away with doing nothing for free, and how the number of people doing this is rising. The major values and interests at stake for this article is how people are taking advantage of the government. This article is based on information such as programs like Bill Clintons Temporary Assistance program and its stake is if the information provided is false or has changed over the time since the article. The credibility of this source is highly credible because the Economist Newspaper is based out of London it is not swayed a certain direction with American bias. There is no bias in this source it is just informative information telling numbers and how the times are changing in American government.

My second source is a source for people on welfare having to get a job. The major claim made by this source is that not working will give you more money than actually working will. It says how people benefit from this and do nothing when they are able to but choose not to. The major values and interests at stake for this article are that working will earn you less money than not working. This claim can be at stake if they do not specify that these jobs they are talking about are the lower end tear jobs and that the money given to the lower class is money as government substances. The credibility is not very high for this source, Michael Tanner is just a regular guy with an extremely strong stance and has an article on a National Review page. The bias of this source is for making the abled bodied people in welfare should have a job to receive welfare.

My third source has a central claim that most welfare recipients have jobs but they are just the low ended jobs but those jobs do not pay for their needs so they stay on welfare. They think that the wages should go up for these jobs so they can afford more. The major values and interests at stake for this article is that they say that most people on welfare have jobs when they give facts saying about 50% do and 50% is half not most. This is at stake because you can use this information against the writer of this article. The credibility of this source is pretty high it was written Eric Morath from the Wall Street Journal. Eric's bias is against making these people work saying that they would want to work if the wages were higher yet they don't because they still would need welfare to make ends meet.

This research question is questionable because many people believe something should be done about this will still many believe it is fine the way it is now. Some arguments and disagreements that I have found is that not working will earn you more money than working actually will. The other is that welfare recipients are already working the best they can they just want higher wages. The different sources reflect my argument because the ones for making them get jobs gives me more information along with the informative article. The other article gives me counter arguments to speak off of and make my argument stronger. To revise my research question I would have to define more on what I mean by welfare and explain the different types of people that deserve help and those that do not.

