Welfare
Introduction to Welfare
Welfare, programs aimed at helping people unable to support themselves fully or earn a living. Welfare recipients include elderly people, people with mental or physical disabilities, and those needing help to support dependent children. People in the United States most commonly use the term welfare to refer to government-funded programs that provide economic support, goods, and services to unemployed or underemployed people. Professionals in the field of public policy and social work use the term social welfare in a broader sense to describe any program, either privately or publicly funded, that helps people to function more fully in society.
All developed nations maintain a variety of social welfare programs. Countries offer many such programs as rights of citizenship. Governments establish welfare systems to provide a so-called safety net to prevent people from suffering the effects of poverty. However, many people believe that welfare encourages its recipients to become dependent on government support and remain unemployed. As a result, welfare programs have always aroused heated public debate.” (1)
Concept of Welfare
Note: explore also the meaning of this legal term in the American Ecyclopedia of Law.
Literature Review on (Social Policy) Welfare and Social Security
In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Mark Carl Rom offers the following summary about the topic of (Social Policy) Welfare and Social Security: Social insurance and welfare have different purposes, serve dissimilar groups, and witness divergent politics. After a brief introduction to the distinction between social insurance and public assistance, this entry focuses on the policies and politics of social security, the largest social insurance program, and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), the most controversial of the public assistance programs.
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- Political Economy
- Public Policy
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Notes and References
- Entry about (Social Policy) Welfare and Social Security in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2015, Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom)
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Further Reading
- Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018, Springer International Publishing, Germany)
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Notes and References
- Information about Welfare in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia
Guide to Welfare
The Legal History of General Welfare Clause
This section provides an overview of General Welfare Clause
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- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- General Welfare Clause in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- General Welfare Clause in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly
The Legal History of Welfare
This section provides an overview of Welfare
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See Also
- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- Welfare in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- Welfare in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly
Hierarchical Display of Welfare
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Welfare
Concept of Welfare
See the dictionary definition of Welfare.
Characteristics of Welfare
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Translation of Welfare
- Spanish: Ayuda social
- French: Aide sociale
- German: Sozialhilfe
- Italian: Aiuto sociale
- Portuguese: Ajuda social
- Polish: Pomoc społeczna
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