U.S. Social Welfare Program

A U.S. Welfare Program is a Social Welfare Program that is a U.S. Government Service.

• Example(s):
  • U.S. Food Stamps Program.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Canadian Social Welfare Program, German Social Welfare Program.
  • Californian Social Welfare Program.
• See: U.S. Minimum Wage Law.

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References

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_States
  • Social programs in the United States are welfare subsidies designed to aid the needs of the U.S. population. Proposals for federal programs began with Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and expanded with Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society.

    The programs vary in eligibility requirements and are provided by various organizations on a federal, state, local and private level. They help to provide food, shelter, education, healthcare and money to U.S. citizens through primary and secondary education, subsidies of college education, unemployment disability insurance, subsidies for eligible low-wage workers, subsidies for housing, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, pensions for eligible persons and health insurance programs that cover public employees. The Social Security system is the largest and most prominent social aid program. Medicare is another prominent program.

    As of 2011, the public social spending-to-GDP ratio in the United States was below the OECD average.

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