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__//**1.)REED, LAWRENCE. "Are We Going the Way of Rome?." Mackinac Center. N.p., 2001. Web. 2 Feb 2012. **//__ __//**2.)Frank, Smitha. "Caesar 's Reforms and Assassination." . N.p., 2011. Web. 2 Feb 2012.**//__ __//**[]**//__ __//**3.)[]**//__ __//**.4.) "Food Stamp Facts." Social security online. Social Security Agency, 2008. Web. 4 Feb 2012. .**//__ __//**This website below can help on ways people abuse the Welfare System:**//__ __//**5.)Welfare Info, . "US Welfare System-Help for Us Citizens." Welfare information. N.p., 2011. Web. 4 Feb 2012. [].**//__
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FACTS ABOUT THE PROBLEM WITH THE WELFARE: Questions that could be asked:
 * 1) Rome needed tax money to pay for the welfare program put in place to help feed the growing number of poor in Rome. As Rome grew and grew they needed more and more money.
 * 2) People would come to Rome and take advantage of their welfare system. There were roughly 80,000 people Caesar disqualified from welfare.
 * 3) Caesar came up with the welfare program to give the Romans temporary relief from rents and began the program housing for the poor.
 * 4) When he began to reform the welfare reducing the numbers those on the dole in Rome from 320,000 to 150,000. This is increasing roughly 15 percent of Rome’s population
 * 5) In the regular food welfare system people were issued welfare stamps which were little tokens called tesserae.
 * 6) Many of Rome's small farmers had become city-dwellers living off welfare. Some gave up and gave their farms to the wealthy and joined the migration to the cities.
 * 7) Diocletian orders that all trades and professions and offices as far as possible were made hereditary. Young men were forced to carry on in the trades of their fathers. There weren’t any escaping from this regimentation. Welfare state had become despotism.
 * 8) People on welfare could get food stamps, social security, financial aid, health care, child care assistance, unemployment, cash aid, and housing assistance.
 * 9) Ways people can abuse the welfare system by not applying for jobs, having more children to get more aid, and staying unmarried so as to qualifying for greater benefits.
 * 10) Eligibility is determined using gross and net income, size of the family, and any crisis situation such as medical emergencies, pregnancy, homelessness or unemployment. A case worker is assigned to those applying for aid.
 * 11) When you apply for a Welfare Program you would need to defiantly bring proof of income, ID, and utility bills or other proof of residency.
 * 12) The price of the food stamps you receive depends on these three guidelines:
 * 13) household income from all sources (earned and unearned) such as money you get from a job, Social Security, SSI, or interest
 * 14) how many people live in your household
 * 15) where you live
 * 16) You don’t have to be born in the US to be able to apply for food stamps, but you have to meet these guidelines: lived legally in the United States for at least 5 years or more, get disability related assistance or benefits, no matter when you entered the United States,children under the age of 18, no matter when the child entered the United States
 * 17) Lawful permanent residents who are active duty members or veterans of the U.S. armed forces or a spouse or a child of a veteran or active duty service member
 * 18) The annona was personified as a goddess.
 * 19) SuperJobs Center placed more than 2,000 in jobs, with an average starting pay of $11 an hour.
 * 20) We continued to experience record numbers in our public assistance programs, including serving 137,000 food assistance recipients and 155,000 Medicaid recipients by the end of the year. That number represents one in every six Hamilton County residents!
 * 21) The Roman Welfare system was called Annona.
 * 22)  Rome had many lower-class citizens so a welfare system was necessary.
 * 23)  The system began because the people of Rome felt that the food supply was a government issue.
 * 24)  Food tokens called tesserae were given to people who couldn’t afford food.
 * 25)  The program started as corn stalls.
 * 26)  On occasion, meats, wines, and oils were rationed out.
 * 27) The US Welfare System was started in 1930, during the Great Depression. It was made to help respond to individuals who were receiving little to no income. The system works very much like the ancient Roman welfare system did.
 * 28)  The welfare system has been around for nearly 80 years.
 * 29) The system varies from state to state
 * 30)  Like in ancient Rome, food stamps are rationed out, and so is cash aid.
 * 31) combat welfare fraud users were occasionally investigated
 * 32) main problem in Ancient Rome was the taxation
 * 33) rome couldnt fix their tax levels
 * 34) rome could create a tax bracket like we have today
 * 35) major flaws in the U.S today is Welfare Fraud
 * 36) welfare fraud has many different levels
 * 37) in ancient rome the major welfare flaws were major tax problem
 * 38) taxes were too high
 * 39) it was a struggle to provide welfare for those in needs
 * 40) the welfare system started in the 1930 during the Great Depression
 * 41) rome had food tokens called tesserae were given to people who couldnt afford food

1.)Do you know if any social worker has ever taken away someone's Welfare because of misuse of the welfare system??Support how they did so to misuse the system??--- 2.) What is the least and the most amount of food stamps someone can get with the Welfare system??--- 3.)Has the rate of people on the Welfare System gone up in the past few years??- yes the rates has gone up a lot 4.)Do you think the government can sustaine the current Welfare system?? __People to Contact:__ Jobs and Family-Arleene Salyer--513-943-3731 Communication Director Assistance-Kathy Pflum--513-946-2189



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