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  2. Socioeconomic mobility in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hence, social mobility is the deferred offspring of many welfare states including the United States due to their low public spending incentives. Studies conducted on education spending in the United States have shown that as compared to the private funding of education, only 2.7% of the nation's total GDP is spent towards public education.

  3. Social programs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Complaints of mistreatment in navigating the welfare state are commonplace, with most unpleasant encounters arising from interactions between welfare recipients and social workers. [53] The dominant approach to social work was casework which emphasized the personal characteristics or moral deficiencies of the recipient rather than social reform.

  4. Cloward–Piven strategy - Wikipedia

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    The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.The strategy aims to utilize "militant anti poverty groups" to facilitate a "political crisis" by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and ...

  5. Welfare culture - Wikipedia

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    Welfare culture refers to the behavioral consequences of providing poverty relief (i.e., welfare) to low-income individuals. Welfare is considered a type of social protection , which may come in the form of remittances, such as 'welfare checks', or subsidized services, such as free/reduced healthcare , affordable housing, and more.

  6. History of Social Security in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The American social security system (1949) comprehensive old overview. Burns, Eveline M. Toward Social Security: An Explanation of the Social Security Act and a Survey of the Larger Issues (1936) online; Davies, Gareth, and Martha Derthick. "Race and social welfare policy: The Social Security Act of 1935." Political Science Quarterly 112.2 ...

  7. Another '70's flashback: The meat crisis - AOL

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    With the return of inflation, insane gas prices, and Peter Brady, it's started to look like the 1970's revival is almost complete.However, as any cultural historian will attest, no reiteration of ...

  8. Welfare state - Wikipedia

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    Social expenditure as % of GDP (). A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions ...

  9. Photos of Corporate America in the 1970s - AOL

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