Social Welfare Case Study

Social welfare began in 1500-1600 when England commenced an investigation into assisting the impoverished or who they thought fit the class. Their attempts lead to what is now recorded as the “Elizabethan Poor Law of 1598”. The back-and-forth of new social services, reduction of the labor force, breakdown of the outdated system, and the move toward industrialization were the beginning of the Elizabethan government’s role in providing social welfare benefits. These contributions paved the way Roosevelt’s “New Deal” and Johnson’s “Great Society” to implement policies like: The Social Security Act, Unemployment Compensation and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Johnson’s contributed with the Civil Rights Act, Economic Opportunity Act,

The strategy of the 1960’s social services was not. In the teaching of "preventive, rehabilitative, or protective" services to the poor, although meaning well suggested that the causes of family poverty were individual problems requiring counseling and casework. Monies were not designated for altering the social or economic situations that challenged the poor, but at making a difference within the poor themselves. (2011) some of the New Deal programs have been viewed as obsolete but Social Security, unemployment insurance and federal agricultural subsidies are still in use and benefiting us

Johnson was rushed into office because of the death of Kennedy, he used what he called “Honeymoon” to push programs for education and training, income supplements, health care, civil rights, and employment programs just to name a few. This programs were marketed as the “Great Society.” Because he know his time may be limited his philosophy was “pass the bill now and worry about effects and execution later.” Johnson’s desire to help the poor initiated the “War on Poverty” aspect of the “Great Society, but there are so many other programs that encompass the legislation. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” was an extension of Roosevelt’s Social Security Act. He believed in more than just financial aid but the improving of the poor, making them more independent and equipping tem with employable skills. Johnson believed that equal opportunity, education, and freedom were the trinity to breaking the chains