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History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/histdev.pdf
The U.S. social welfare structure has been shaped both by long standing traditions and by changing economic and socialconditions. In its early history, the United States was an expanding country with a vast frontier and a predominantly agriculturaleconomy. Up to 1870, more than half the Nation’s adult workers were farmers. In the years that followed, however, industry developed rapidly and the economy tended increasingly to be characterized by industrialization, specialization, and urbanization. Theresult was a Nation of more employees who were dependent on a continuing flow of money income to provide for themselves andtheir families.
From the earliest colonial times, local villages and towns recognized an obligation to aid the needy when family effort andassistance provided by neighbors and friends were not sufficient. This aid was carried out through the poor relief system andalmshouses or workhouses. Gradually, measures were adopted to provide aid on a more organized basis, usually through cashallowances to certain categories among the poor. Mothers’ pension laws, which made it possible for children without paternalsupport to live at home with their mothers rather than in institutions or foster homes, were adopted in a number of States evenbefore World War I. In the mid-twenties, a few States began to experiment with old-age assistance and aid to the blind.Meanwhile, both the States and the Federal Government had begun to recognize that certain risks in an increasingly industrialized economy could best be met through a social insurance approach to public welfare. That is, the contributory financing of social insurance programs would ensure that protection was available as a matter of right as contrasted with a public assistance approach whereby only those persons in need would be eligible for benefits.
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