...In the final days of the Pension Bureau, old age was itself considered an infirmity eligible for pensions. The age and service pension system paved the way for the creation of the modern American welfare state via the Social Security Act of 1935. Though many attribute the Social Security Act’s...

...This chapter focuses on President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty that set in motion a series of programs such as increased spending and lower taxes to stimulate job creation, Medicare and Medicaid, and a higher minimum wage and Social Security benefits. It begins by discussing an informal survey...

... and nurturing care to their children. The chapter argues that the onset of the Great Depression marked a setback for the delivery of child welfare services. However, the promise of a more rational system of federal welfare provision through passage of the Social Security Act and other New Deal programs raised...

... project of the Johnson administration that included programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps, as well as increases in Social Security benefits and a program of government jobs for the poor and the unemployed after he left office. The book's main argument is that good jobs are the key...

... with improving health care for tuberculars, and they influenced two major changes to tuberculosis policy: a social security law for tuberculars in 1969 and a new outpatient treatment program in 1970 (which eventually became known as DOTS). These revolutionized the landscape of tuberculosis on the island...

... administration's policies on unemployment and Social Security before concluding with an assessment of conservative arguments about poverty, paying particular attention to the conservative claim that the liberals' social programs and permissiveness on crime gave rise to an underclass of unwed mothers on welfare...

... job creation and increasing the federal minimum wage to providing more support to the unemployed, strengthening Social Security, and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit. Bush George W Greenspan Alan Interest rates inflation and Recession Business sector Class Clinton Bill Congressional...

... Institute for the Protection of Childhood IIPI Peru puericulture Red Cross Sand René social work Thomas Albert tuberculosis Uruguay social security Chilean National Medical Convention of 1936 Poblete Troncoso Moisés Valparaíso Chile Walker Linares Francisco Cuba immigration infant mortality...

... their exclusion from the National Recovery Administration’s industrial codes, limited access to government relief programs, or their ineligibility to receive benefits from the Social Security Act. In 1938, 10,000 black women rioted for charwomen jobs in the federal government, which illustrated their desire...