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A 7 page research paper that discusses the development of social welfare in the US, looking specifically at the structure of social welfare programs that are in place today and also at the urgent need for reform in regards to the Social Security program. Reform will determine whether or not this program can remain sufficiently solvent to meet the needs of the elderly in coming years. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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last century that the federal government has taken an active role in social welfare by instituting federally supervised programs. The following examination of the development of social welfare in the
US looks specifically at the structure of social welfare programs that are in place today and also at the urgent need for reform in regards to the Social Security program.
Reform will determine whether or not this program can remain sufficiently solvent to meet the needs of the elderly in coming years. The steady influx of immigrants who
arrived throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth depended did not have any federally sponsored programs to turn to for assistance. They
relied instead on fellow countrymen who had already arrived in America (U.S. Society, 2004). It was during the Progressive Era, between 1900 and World War I, that social work
became practically synonymous with social welfare (Van Wormer, 1997). In reaction to the heartlessness of the previous era, Progressives campaigned against the ruthless practices of big business and held
that the government had a responsibility to regulate to ensure the public good (Van Wormer, 1997). However, due to the rapid pace of industrialization and the availability of farmland, a
feeling persisted in the US that anyone who was willing to work would be able to find a job (U.S. Society, 2004). The Great Depression obliterated this belief.
During this time--for the first time in American history -- substantial numbers of Americans were out of work. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, within days of taking office in 1932, proposed
the first social welfare legislation. While most of the programs started during the Depression were temporary relief measures, one program--Social Security--became an American institution and the backbone of federal social
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