Over the years there has been an aid called "welfare" that helps people in difficulty by offering financial support. Welfare is a federally funded program that helps citizens who are experiencing financial hardship, intended to be a type of income "replacement" until a person is able to get back on their feet and find a new source of work. This program began in the 1930s as a response to the financial blow that many people with families suffered due to the Great Depression. There are several types of welfare that provide aid to specific aspects of a person's life, including health care, food stamps, child care, unemployment, housing assistance, and cash aid. When welfare became popular, it created controversy throughout the United States. The popularity has led people to increasingly question the program in its entirety. People who were not receiving social assistance wanted to know more about the qualifications to be eligible for social assistance, the reasons why they turned to public assistance and, furthermore, people were starting to wonder what exactly their tax money financed. As more and more citizens began to ask questions, the fear that their money was being stolen for illicit drug use, rather than given to protect the country's social and economic structure as intended by the program, prompted anger and further investigations into this possibility. The case where welfare fraud was committed was in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania. Former welfare recipient Ruth Horn will serve between 18 and 36 years in prison for her decision to commit welfare fraud. They abused the system when she and her husband began collecting welfare checks, only to turn around and cash them to fund the purchase of illicit… paper halves… because of these facts. It works QuotedBowler, Kyle. “Will drug testing help the welfare system?” Welfareandabuse.blogspot.com.Published April 22, 2012. March 24, 2014.Cohen, Adam. “Drug Testing the Poor: Bad Policy, Even Worse Law.” Ideas Drug testing of the poor Bad policy Even worse Comments on the law. Time Magazine, August 29, 2011. Web. March 31, 2014. Flexer, Robert. “Woman convicted of drug dealing convicted of welfare fraud is sentenced to 18-3 months in state prison.” The Morning Call [LeHigh Valley] February 10, 1988: n. page Print.Lewis, Jackson. “The city’s pre-employment drug testing requirements are unconstitutional for non-safety-sensitive library positions.” Venulex Legal Summaries (2008): 1-2. Business origination completed. Network. March 24, 2014.MacDonald, Isabel. "THE GOP DRUG TESTING NETWORK. (Cover Story)." Nation 296.16 (2013): 11-17. Academic research completed. Network. March 22. 2014