Unemployment as a Social Problem

Running head: UNEMPLOYMENT 1
Unemployment
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Report: Unemployment as a Social Problem

UNEMPLOYMENT 2
In my opinion, I selected unemployment as a social welfare problem because it is the
most common issue to be addressed in the current epoch as far as advocating policy making is
concerned. In social work, employment and job creation is the most critical to improve social
change in the society. In this case, a letter is necessary to support the issues addressed to the
federal state official. In this report the issue of unemployment is discussed in line with the
support of the letter written to the elected state official. The purpose of this report is to support
the ideas reflected in the letter as illustrated below.
The American social welfare enjoys the social act of 1935which was implemented by
Franklin Roosevelt on employment (Longhurst & McCann, 2016). The act has supported
programs of job security and public assistance. Just to mention, unemployment will reduce the
country’s GDP, hence a reduction in the country economic growth. The office of the federal
official should focus on job creations and address the issue of unemployment at all costs
(Abelson et al., 2017).
Apparently, employment is an instance of universal program in the society since the
citizens are entitled to participate in the program as part of their social rights. The program is
not dependant on the government financial needs. The employment and job creation program
will only constitute to 20% of the federal government spending (Burns, Clifton & Quaglia,
2018). The federal state will benefit from funding accumulated from revenue collected from the
payroll tax, which is equally shared by both the employer and the employee. Any person who is
anticipating receiving the benefits should contribute to the payroll during their working years. As
far as employment is concerned, the payroll taxes should be contributed in a minimum period of
10 years (Dunn & Laing, 2017). Consequently, the individual benefit levels are determined by