مجلة الرسالة للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية
Volume 7, Numéro 8, Pages 295-307
2023-02-18

Social Divisions, Welfare, And The Welfare State During Trump’s Administration

Authors : Tahar Djebbar Aziza .

Abstract

Welfare has been always a hot subject in American politics. In this paper, we will endeavor to study Donald Trump’s approach to reform welfare and to the welfare state as well as the impact of social divisions on his administration’s strategies to tackle poverty. In this project, we attempt to demonstrate the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and religion in U.S. politics and public policy during Trump’s Administration and their impact on poor American citizens. Although, the U.S. economy flourished to some extent during the Trump Administration, the poor, whose income was low, were not supposed to wait for financial assistance from the government. Trump did not focus on poor people in his strategies to reform welfare; instead, he aimed at increasing military spending and cutting government spending by focusing on food stamps.

Keywords

Covid-19 ; poverty ; social divisions ; Trump’s Administration ; welfare ; welfare state