welfare

(noun)

Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (abbreviated form of Welfare assistance).

Related Terms

Examples of welfare in the following topics:

  • History of the Welfare State

    • Marshall identified the welfare state as a distinctive combination of democracy, welfare and capitalism.
    • The United Kingdom, as a modern welfare state, started to emerge with the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–1914 under Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith .
    • Roosevelt's New Deal welfare state policies of the 1930s.
    • Marshall identified the welfare state as a distinctive combination of democracy, welfare and capitalism.
    • The United Kingdom, as a modern welfare state, started to emerge with the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–1914 under Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

  • Promoting the General Welfare

    • Article IV of the Constitution of Massachusetts provides authority for the state to make laws "as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this commonwealth. " The actual phrase "general welfare" appears only in Article CXVI, which permits the imposition of capital punishment for "the purpose of protecting the general welfare of the citizens. "
    • The General Welfare clause is a section of the Constitution-- as well as certain charters and statutes-- which provides that the governing body empowered by the document may enact laws to promote the general welfare of the people.
    • There have been different interpretations of the meaning of the General Welfare clause.
    • General Welfare clause arises from two distinct disagreements: The first concerns whether the General Welfare clause grants an independent spending power or is a restriction upon the taxing power; the second disagreement pertains to what exactly is meant by the phrase "general welfare. "
    • Illustrate how the General Welfare clause of the Constitution is applied to public policy

  • Foundations of the Welfare State

    • The welfare system in the United States was created on the grounds that the market cannot provide goods and services universally.
    • In 2002, total U.S. social welfare expenditure constitutes roughly 35% of GDP, with purely public expenditure constituting 21%, publicly supported but privately provided welfare services constituting 10% of GDP and purely private services constituting 4% of GDP.
    • Examples of the Liberal welfare state include Australia, Canada, Japan, Switzerland and the United States.
    • This compared to France and Sweden whose welfare spending ranges from 30% to 35% of GDP.
    • Compare and contrast the social-democratic welfare state, the Christian-democratic welfare state and the liberal welfare state

  • Welfare Reform

    • Welfare reform has attempted many times to remove welfare altogether by promoting self-sufficiency, but has been unsuccessful in this regard thus far.
    • Welfare reform refers to improving how a nation helps those citizens in poverty.
    • Before the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, welfare assistance was "once considered an open-ended right," but welfare reform converted it "into a finite program built to provide short-term cash assistance and steer people quickly into jobs. " Prior to reform, states were given "limitless" money by the federal government, increasing per family on welfare, under the 60-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.
    • This gave states no incentive to direct welfare funds to the neediest recipients or to encourage individuals to go off welfare benefits (the state lost federal money when someone left the system).
    • Describe the features of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 under President Bill Clinton

  • Promoting Public Welfare and Income Redistribution

    • Social welfare programs seek to provide basic social protections for all Americans.
    • The United States has a long political history of seeking to implement policy to promote public welfare.
    • One of the most well-known initiatives to improve public welfare in times of need was President Franklin D.
    • Current American politicians also attempt to ensure that programs exist to promote public welfare.
    • Social Security exists to this day as a federal program to promote public welfare.

  • Social Regulation

    • Social policy refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare.
    • Social policy primarily refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare.
    • Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and social security.
    • Important areas of social policy are the welfare state, social security, unemployment insurance, environmental policy, pensions, health care, social housing, social care, child protection, social exclusion, education policy, crime, and criminal justice.

  • Preamble

    • In deciding whether the proposed project constituted a "public use", the court pointed to the Preamble's reference to "promot[ing] the general Welfare" as evidence that "[t]he health of the people was in the minds of our forefathers".
    • Surely this is in accord with an objective of the United States Constitution: '* * * promote the general Welfare. '"
    • We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  • Liberalism

    • Conservatism shares an ideological agreement on limited government in the area of preventing government restriction against economic civil liberties as embodied in the ability of people to sell their goods, services or labor to anyone they choose free from restriction except in rare cases where society's general welfare is at stake.
    • Novak, liberalism in the United States shifted in the late 19th and early 20th century from classical liberalism (endorsing laissez-faire economics and constitutionalism) to "democratic social-welfarism" (endorsing such government involvement as seen in the New Deal).
    • According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, "In the United States, liberalism is associated with the welfare-state policies of the New Deal program of the Democratic administration of Pres.

  • Issues with the Traditional Political Spectrum

    • Though the descriptive words at polar opposites may vary, often in popular biaxial spectra the axes are split between cultural issues and economic issues, each scaling from some form of individualism (or government for the freedom of the individual) to a form of communitarianism (or government for the welfare of the community).

  • The Impact of Court Decisions

    • Some national constitutions in effect define their governments' core businesses as being the provision of such things as justice, tranquility, defense and general welfare.