• Charlotte, N.C. - PETA has reviewed damning North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) records from between June 2018 and February 2020 that reveal that 20 PetSmart stores in the state- including one in Charlotte -were ordered to improve conditions for animals in order to comply with the state's Animal Welfare Act (AWA). (peta.org)
  • The federal government (Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families) requires each state's child welfare agency to create a five-year Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP). (oregon.gov)
  • Each state has a Title IV-E State Plan that lays out the state's specific participation in IV-E programs and funding and identifies the state laws and regulations that have been enacted to comply with federal laws and regulations associated with the funding. (oregon.gov)
  • That's a lot of wisdom packed into a few pithy sentences, but the welfare state's track record has always been a far cry from its promises. (fee.org)
  • Statutory definitions across the States generally describe specific conduct or acts that are subject to civil and criminal actions, and the specific language used may vary depending on whether the definition is found in the civil or criminal sections of the State's code. (childwelfare.gov)
  • Instead, states need to spend on TANF recipients, at least 75% of what they spent the previous year on the AFDC (Marx). (ipl.org)
  • The money that was poured into the new program by the federal government was given to the state, not the recipients directly. (ipl.org)
  • One significant change from the old 'welfare ' system is that TANF recipients must participate in work activities in or to receive benefits. (ipl.org)
  • They were even perhaps willing to tolerate some short-term sacrifice of income among would-be welfare recipients if that was the price of a long-term cultural transformation. (brookings.edu)
  • Gov. Paul LePage wants to limit state welfare benefits to only those residents living in Maine legally, a move that could force municipalities to drop some recipients or risk losing government funds. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Under normal circumstances, states periodically redetermine Medicaid recipients' eligibility to account for changed circumstances such as new employment, altered family status and increased income. (cei.org)
  • States will have ample time to complete the process: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has advised them they'll have 14 months after the emergency ends to process ineligible recipients, with no consequence for taking longer. (cei.org)
  • Enhance work and training for welfare recipients. (csmonitor.com)
  • Check out the full post to learn just how much America's submerged welfare state is costing you. (tcf.org)
  • We learn that the American welfare state is larger and more dynamic than many have believed-yet, to this day, it fails to ameliorate inequality or poverty. (princeton.edu)
  • After years of implementation, the current welfare system of the time, the AFDC, had been said to cause familial issues when it was meant to be providing aid to families in poverty. (ipl.org)
  • At this point the state would use these funds against poverty at their own discretion. (ipl.org)
  • Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers ," JCPR Working Papers 32, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. (repec.org)
  • ACADEMIC PANEL co-sponsored by CROP at the annual meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19). (crop.org)
  • While these arguments are made in good faith, and with the intent of helping poor people, anarchists should be looking into the matter more deeply and coming up with critiques of state welfare and solutions to poverty more consistent with libertarian thinking, instead of falling in line behind the modern nanny state. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • While doing away entirely with government is the ultimate remedy for poverty, other measures which could be proposed and implemented under the state, such as decreased taxation to increase the wealth of the working poor, deregulation of health care to decrease health care costs, and a return to mutual aid societies in place of extortionate insurance companies, are much more in line with anarchist principles than cheerleading for AFDC. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Enrollment has risen to unprecedented levels, due in large part to the March 2020 Families First Coronavirus Response Act's continuous-coverage requirement, which prohibits state Medicaid agencies from disenrolling ineligible beneficiaries while the public health emergency lasts. (cei.org)
  • After declining in the two years before the pandemic, Medicaid enrollment grew by an estimated 19 million (more than 26%) between February 2020 and July 2022 because states can no longer assess and remove ineligible enrollees. (cei.org)
  • The British government is now trying to restrain public finances, but until massive reform of the welfare state is undertaken, these efforts are likely to be in vain. (theweek.com)
  • The dilemma that governments then face is how to achieve significant reform of the welfare state at precisely the time when more people need its help. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Thus, when economically disengaged beneficiaries of the welfare state are combined with these government workers, the result is politicians who have a major interest in the ballooning welfare state. (theweek.com)
  • This article reveals these vast structural inequalities and concludes by calling not only, as others have, for an increase and more progressive distribution of social welfare dollars but also, for the first time, for reforms that would address the structural inequalities at the heart of the U.S. social welfare state and that would render it more successful at supporting the autonomy and resilience of all of its beneficiaries. (ssrn.com)
  • Extending the emergency is aimed at keeping as many people as possible dependent on Medicaid - the federal-state health program that covers more than 1 in 4 Americans - even though large and growing numbers of beneficiaries are ineligible. (cei.org)
  • Attorney General Janet Mills, a Democrat, says the governor has no authority to implement the change in welfare regulations without legislative approval. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The international, national, and state regulations and guidelines regarding methylene chloride in air, water, and other media are summarized in Table 7-1. (cdc.gov)
  • Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and Department for Children and Families Secretary Gina Meier-Hummel have announced their proposal to increase the budget on child welfare services by $16.5 million. (cwla.org)
  • Pande 2014Pande , 2021Vij 2013), and a sub-national Right to Hearing law from the state of Rajasthan (Agrawal and Nair 2018) in state practice. (researchgate.net)
  • Qvarnström, L 2018, To Build a Welfare State . (lu.se)
  • By offering citizens a cradle-to-grave system of unconditional government support, welfare states disincentivize personal responsibility. (theweek.com)
  • Britain's National Insurance system had previously been looked after by different agencies (including charities and government departments) and was in a fragmented state. (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
  • These words were spoken by President Clinton during the signing ceremony of his passed legislature that called for a drastic reform of the welfare system. (ipl.org)
  • A package of seven welfare reform focus files yesterday described the problem with a welfare benefit system that, as the Prime Minister told the Cabinet, was no longer working. (independent.co.uk)
  • Including these benefits in the overall picture of U.S. social welfare provision reveals a system that is both larger in size than popularly believed and that, in addition to providing some support for the poor, distributes significant benefits regressively, to households with substantial wealth. (ssrn.com)
  • While Feiglin's party ultimately failed to win any seats in the Knesset, their efforts speak to an emerging trend on the Israeli right: using the welfare system as a mechanism for exclusion and separation among citizens. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Once an economic system meant to protect society from the harms of the market, the welfare state is now utilized as a punitive tool to demarcate the boundaries of the polity. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Over the past decade or so, Israeli lawmakers have been slowly curtailing and revoking social benefits from (mostly poor) Palestinian families-citizens of Israel who have contributed to the system all their lives-under the pretext of national security or "loyalty" to the state. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Our monthly progress reports also provide key metrics related to our work to transform Oregon's child welfare system. (oregon.gov)
  • View our dashboards for up-to-date information about the children, youth and families served by Oregon's Child Welfare system. (oregon.gov)
  • He probes the large role a Lutheran ethic played in the development of the Nordic welfare state and the Nordic social-democratic political and economic system during its golden years from the 1930s to the 1980s. (helsinki.fi)
  • According to Nelson, current challenges to secular Lutheranism and social democracy include the rising number of immigrants and difficulties with maintaining a high rate of economic growth to support a generous welfare system. (helsinki.fi)
  • He also notes that European welfare states have shown a greater capacity for change than is often recognised, with the shift toward a system that gives priority to social investment making a real difference in several countries. (lse.ac.uk)
  • However, when there is a downturn, especially one as severe as that which hit several European countries in recent years, governments have to meet existing obligations and face new demands on the welfare system arising directly from the crisis. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Europeans have become accustomed to the idea that they should be net contributors to the welfare system during their working lifetimes, but then draw from the system in old-age through public pensions. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Second, the welfare system redistributes economic resources in various ways. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Calling for the dismantling of the welfare system for poor people may not be the best place for anarchists to start in the fight against the very existence of the state, but arguing for its continued maintenance-or even its expansion-as if this were the only way to help people in need, is not the right course of action either. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • He called his system Staatssozialismus, or "state socialism. (fee.org)
  • AS we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution, we should use the occasion to strengthen the federal system that has been the backbone of our governmental structure and to focus on the roles federal, state, and local governments play in American society. (csmonitor.com)
  • Federalism - the system of government in which the nation's power is shared and dispersed among federal, state, and local jurisdictions - is a foundation stone of US democracy. (csmonitor.com)
  • The US welfare system is a crazy quilt of varied, often inadequate benefit levels and eligibility criteria, in which the accidents of birth or residence determine a family's level of support. (csmonitor.com)
  • The US should reform its inadequate welfare system and correct major distortions in the structure of federalism at one and the same time, for the two issues are inextricably intertwined. (csmonitor.com)
  • Unlike with the AFDC, the TANF program is funded federally and the state does not have to meet the federal funds with an equal amount of their own. (ipl.org)
  • The block grant for TANF given to each state has been a fixed rate since it 's conception in 1996 so this would mean that as the years go by and inflation rises, the power behind each dollar falls (Trisi). (ipl.org)
  • TANF replaces the federal programs previously known as 'welfare, ' and enables states to offer a wide variety of social services. (ipl.org)
  • As the government, at various levels, attempts to cut back on welfare and other entitlement payments to poor people and/or require people to work in exchange for their welfare benefits, anarchists in the united states have been talking and writing about what the appropriate anarchist response should be. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Insecurity creates a sense of helplessness and entitlement was proposed as the solution…Bismarck affirmed that the state should offer the poor "a helping hand in distress….Not as alms, but as a right. (fee.org)
  • This article is the first to turn to those questions and to systematically demonstrate that those who are economically (and disproportionately racially) disadvantaged are offered a social welfare state that is meager, punitive and tremendously risky for those who receive its benefits. (ssrn.com)
  • 2/4 · understand the development of the Swedish welfare state politically and economically. (lu.se)
  • The German term sozialstaat ("social state") has been used since 1870 to describe state support programs devised by German sozialpolitiker ("social politicians") and implemented as part of Otto von Bismarck's conservative reforms. (wikipedia.org)
  • This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014. (routledge.com)
  • A 'focus paper' on the evolution of social security quoted from the original Beveridge White Paper of 1942, saying: 'Social Security must be achieved by co-operation between the state and the individual. (independent.co.uk)
  • Nevertheless, the true content of Lutheranism has remained surprisingly intact through the centuries," continuing through the 20th century, states Nelson. (helsinki.fi)
  • In the great depression 1930's the local and state government provided support for the poor, many assistances coming from churches were people would receive free food and agencies supplying the size of aid available to them. (ipl.org)
  • Although as a formal matter the rich, like the poor, have no right to economic support in the Constitutional sense, American social welfare policy moves the rich remarkably close to a right to economic support, leaving the poor far behind. (ssrn.com)
  • Bach, Wendy, Poor Support/Rich Support: (Re)Viewing the American Social Welfare State (May 17, 2017). (ssrn.com)
  • An increasing share of mothers work, but many European welfare states do not adequately support the dual-earner model, especially in southern Europe. (routledge.com)
  • The CFSP is directly tied to federal government funding to support Oregon Child Welfare programs. (oregon.gov)
  • Some have come to the position that anarchists should support state welfare for poor people and actively oppose cutbacks, arguing that poor people deserve state assistance since they are the victims of capitalist economic relations, that capitalist corporations are a greater threat to poor and working people than the state, and that forcing people to work will cause even worse working conditions for many than already exist, further impoverishing people. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • That is to say, are there plausible circumstances in which a social welfare state can be regarded as "liberal" in the sense that it has the universal support of its citizens? (springer.com)
  • Using these principles, the federal government should assume greater responsibility for income support programs, where the solution to the problem of low-income Americans demands a national solution and national resources, while states should assume many of the economic development, social service, and infrastructure programs now supported at the federal level. (csmonitor.com)
  • Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States ," IZA Discussion Papers 9378, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). (repec.org)
  • Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers ," The Quarterly Journal of Economics , Oxford University Press, vol. 116(3), pages 1063-1114. (repec.org)
  • Emperor Ashoka of India put forward his idea of a welfare state in the 3rd century BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • U.K. government expenditures have had to grow dramatically to cope with welfare demands. (theweek.com)
  • Some critics go further by arguing that the underlying reason for the crises affecting so many European countries is that public debt had been pushed upwards by the inexorable demands of the welfare state. (lse.ac.uk)
  • It certainly makes sense to make the best of the existence of a welfare state and take advantage of the programs that have been instituted in response to the demands and movements of radical or progressive statists, but it is quite another thing to look to these programs as the preferred way to solve social problems. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • A number of anarchists seem to have bought the idea that since government can sometimes be more responsive to the demands of poor people than private capitalists, the state can be seen as a guardian against their depredations. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Welfare states have to be funded by imposing taxes on workers and companies, so that they make production more expensive in countries with generous welfare states. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Similarly, a study of the effects of state expenditures on state-level age-adjusted mortality reported on public expenditures, tax structures, and welfare program rules and found that more generous education spending, more progressive tax systems, and more lenient welfare program rules helped to improve population health (8). (cdc.gov)
  • Title : Family Planning Policies And Activities Of State Health And Welfare Departments Personal Author(s) : Harting, D.;Stableford, S.;Eliot, J. W.;Corsa, L. (cdc.gov)
  • In establishing a governing premise that removes consequential risk from calculations of conduct, welfare states weaken the incentives for initiative and sacrifice the social benefits that are born of personal responsibility. (theweek.com)
  • The Welfare State, the other main government initiative of this period, also excited only limited controversy. (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
  • The Welfare State Nobody Knows challenges a number of myths and half-truths about U.S. social policy. (princeton.edu)
  • Ambitious and timely, The Welfare State Nobody Knows asks us to rethink the influence of political parties, interest groups, public opinion, federalism, policy design, and race on the American welfare state. (princeton.edu)
  • The social welfare has been a debatable argument for year in the U.S, many since the people have different beliefs in the welfare policy. (ipl.org)
  • Many time being is that the federal government had chosen to stay away from social welfare while also choosing to be heavily involved with it, making the federal agencies heavily involved in policy making. (ipl.org)
  • Although a variety of scholars and policy analysts have described these outcomes, scholars have yet to focus on the ways in which structural inequality is written directly into the means of administration of U.S. social welfare programs. (ssrn.com)
  • One of following courses: Swedish Politics and Policy, 7.5 credits, Gender Equality and the Nordic Welfare State, 7.5 credits, The Geography of Sweden, 7.5 credits or equivalent. (oru.se)
  • How do welfare states in different parts of the world draw on different aspects of social policy in the context of globalization? (crop.org)
  • The 2011 RC19 meeting brings together leading scholars in the field of comparative welfare state studies from different parts of the world and encompassing a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy and political science, to discuss these questions. (crop.org)
  • The issue of setting up such a board for implementing welfare schemes for transgenders and protecting their rights was mentioned in the third women's policy of the state government, accepted by the cabinet in 2013. (indiatimes.com)
  • The policy promised various welfare measures for working women in the state. (indiatimes.com)
  • The Evans-Robb committee suggested the states assume full financial, policy, and administrative responsibilities for a variety of community development, local infrastructure, and social-service programs - such as community development block grants, urban development grants, mass transit, and waste-water treatment programs. (csmonitor.com)
  • Since welfare schemes for transgenders were implemented by Union Social Justice Ministry, all work related to setting up of the board and implementing welfare schemes for the community was transferred to the state Social Justice department on October 3, 2017, and an amount of Rs 5 crore was set aside for the purpose," he said. (indiatimes.com)
  • We propose an evaluation of the impact of TRA86 on well-being using different welfare metrics which fully retain preference heterogeneity. (repec.org)
  • Early features of the welfare state, such as public pensions and social insurance, developed from the 1880s onwards in industrializing Western countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • But instead of encouraging capitalism as in Calvinist Europe, Lutheranism promoted a social-democratic welfare state in the Nordic world. (helsinki.fi)
  • Nelson also compares the American and Nordic ideas of the welfare state in a novel way, discussing the greater influence of Calvinism in the United States as compared with Lutheranism in the Nordic countries. (helsinki.fi)
  • This has been the foundation of the concept of 20th century Nordic social solidarity, in particular, states Nelson. (helsinki.fi)
  • The book Lutheranism and the Nordic Spirit of Social Democracy: A Different Protestant Ethic offers interesting and novel approaches to the connections between religion, national identity, church and state, as well as the relationship of civil society and government in the Nordic countries. (helsinki.fi)
  • Guiding migrant parents in Nordic Welfare States. (fafo.no)
  • The Nordic welfare state is analyzed both empirically and theoretically, with a special emphasis on the case of Sweden. (lu.se)
  • The course includes a history of the development of the Swedish welfare state and considers arguments for and against the Nordic welfare state model. (lu.se)
  • The reasoning is that, because politicians fear a backlash from voters if they try to cut welfare provisions, they are reluctant to impose cuts on welfare budgets, and are also scared of raising taxes. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Meanwhile, some politicians complain that LePage can't change welfare laws without legislative approval and that he's grandstanding during an election year. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The late political humorist Tom Anderson once said that the welfare state was so named because the politicians get well and the rest of us pay the fare . (fee.org)
  • So where did the idea come from that the State should be the national nanny, that dependence upon politicians should displace personal responsibility and private institutions? (fee.org)
  • 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 for a good life. (wikipedia.org)
  • A functioning social welfare state in which citizens can feel that the state offers them a safety net is at the core of social democratic values and the basis for a stable democracy. (fes.de)
  • While the aim of a young country such as Kosovo should be to become a state capable and willing of fulfilling its duties and obligations to its citizens, there remain significant shortcomings by Kosovo in a variety of areas related to the human security of Kosovo citizens. (fes.de)
  • However, trust in the state and its democracy needs social security and if it is lacking, societies grow apart, become unstable and unequal and the democratic participation of ll citizens is at risk as they have no time and capacity to engage in society. (fes.de)
  • But LePage, who has had family members who've relied on welfare and who has made overhauling the programs a priority since taking office, said in his radio address that 'illegal aliens who choose to live in Maine are not our most vulnerable citizens. (foxbusiness.com)
  • As described in the chapter and illustrated throughout the anthology, the three levels are interlinked: Macro level welfare state transformations influence the meso level of public encounters between welfare professionals and citizens, and on micro level, these encounters have real effect for, for example, citizens' access to social rights. (lu.se)
  • California, for instance, leads the nation in the number of restaurants offering shark fin products-59 were found by AWI in its latest audit-despite a 2013 state law that prohibits the possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins. (awionline.org)
  • While the United States prohibits shark finning in federal waters, there is no nationwide ban on the sale of shark fins, fueling the global shark fin trade. (awionline.org)
  • But the principles laid down by Lord Beveridge, founder of the modern Welfare State in 1948, would remain central. (independent.co.uk)
  • Prime Minister Imran Khan has said reaffirmed the commitment to transform Pakistan into a modern Islamic welfare state in line with the Islamic teachings and ideas of its forefathers. (com.pk)
  • This edited volume provides a synthesis on the question of business attitudes towards and its influence over the development of the modern welfare state. (routledge.com)
  • One of the fundamental challenges facing modern welfare states is the question of work-family reconciliation. (routledge.com)
  • The course gives the student the opportunity to develop a deeper knowledge of and reflect on the growth, development and challenges of the modern welfare state from the perspectives of Political Science, Gender studies or Human Geography. (oru.se)
  • The modern German welfare state began not as a utopian vision of altruism and compassion, but as nothing more than a political ploy for one man to keep himself and his allies in office. (fee.org)
  • The modern welfare state is often seen as originating in Imperial Germany in the 1880s, when the Iron Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck, established compulsory accident, sickness, and old-age insurance for workers. (independent.org)
  • Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. (lu.se)
  • Instead, Bengtsson shows, among other things, how the temperance movement's strong organisational culture and the free churches formed the basis for the Swedish welfare state in the late 1800s. (lu.se)
  • By Jameel Hampton Beginning with the recognition of the special needs of disabled schoolchildren in the 1880s, the British state took on the welfare of groups of disabled people perceived to be deserving of statutory welfare. (activehistory.ca)
  • Have the negative economic consequences brought about by the financial crisis made European welfare states unaffordable? (lse.ac.uk)
  • While Ely and the others were preaching their Germanic doctrines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an incipient welfare state was emerging quite independently in the United States through a far-reaching expansion of the pensions provided to Union veterans of the Civil War. (independent.org)
  • We need no longer see the federal and state governments as locked in battle - both are essential to serve the public adequately. (csmonitor.com)
  • We reiterate the commitments made by our heads of State and Governments at major United Nations conferences and summits, at their follow-up processes and in the Millennium Declaration with respect to the promotion of international and national environments that will foster a society for all ages. (who.int)
  • Surprisingly enough, a much greater leader in welfare abuse than food stamps is actually Medicaid. (ipl.org)
  • The promise of a 6.2% temporary increase in the federal government's share of total Medicaid costs enticed states into forgoing this process. (cei.org)
  • Groups like Families USA (a long-time advocate of Medicaid expansion) and nursing home trade associations like the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living (whose 14,000 members derive huge revenue from Medicaid) pressured the administration to extend the emergency, ostensibly so states can prepare for the unprecedentedly large Medicaid eligibility redeterminations that will start once it's over. (cei.org)
  • Convert the long-term care component of medicaid into a federal block grant to states, with levels of funding indexed for changes in the prices of the program and the population it serves. (csmonitor.com)
  • In Israel, welfare exclusion has been followed by calls to revoke citizenship, providing an alarming test case for what can be expected in other countries under far-right sway. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Linking the levels, the anthology contributes with analytical insights into welfare state transformations and social rights. (lu.se)
  • Perhaps the most eloquent critiques of the welfare state come from economist Thomas Sowell. (fee.org)
  • Ultimately, welfare states actually don't help people in need. (theweek.com)
  • This was surprising, as Beveridge himself did not want people to become dependent on the Welfare State, and wanted benefits to be fairly limited. (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
  • At least part of the reason it is, at times, easier to squeeze concessions out of the state, is that it costs the individuals in government nothing: they will simply force working people to foot the bill for any increase in welfare benefits by increasing taxes. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • People become less charitable, figuring the State will take care of things they used to handle themselves at half the cost. (fee.org)
  • Unfortunately, it has been identified, over the years, that a number of people slip through the protective net of the welfare state. (independent.com.mt)
  • In redistributing earned income to those who choose not to work, welfare states are not only unfair, they are intractably unfair. (theweek.com)
  • Child protection agencies across the United States are beginning to implement similar programs in the hope of making their work more effective. (cwla.org)
  • Work is another, necessary prerequisite: Americans who leave welfare for work gain the respect our society reserves for workers, even if they gain not a cent of income. (brookings.edu)
  • Early last year, Munde had said there were some five Central schemes for the welfare of transgenders and that her ministry will work towards bringing the community members into the mainstream. (indiatimes.com)
  • As an illustration of different social institutions creating different work-related health, we present characteristics of work and health in the United States and the European Union using the 2015 Working Conditions Surveys data. (cdc.gov)
  • Many Europeans regard the establishment of the welfare state as one of the major achievements of the 20th Century. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Addressing adequately tax evasion, including that encouraged by the state, would go a long way in funding the welfare state gaps. (independent.com.mt)
  • But opponents say the Republican would be pitting have-nots against other have-nots in the state and feeding into a fear of immigrants. (foxbusiness.com)
  • In Massachusetts and other states, immigrants who can't show they are living there legally can't receive any cash assistance, said Eva Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The literal English equivalent "social state" did not catch on in Anglophone countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • In The Welfare State Nobody Knows , Christopher Howard compellingly reveals an American welfare state that is at once larger than previously acknowledged and yet incapable of solving the fundamental social problems confronting the nation. (princeton.edu)
  • Welfare State , Europe , Europe , Welfare State Comments Off on The Crisis of the European Union. (vnavarro.org)
  • A BALLARAT child welfare advocate has reiterated the continuing problem with the region's child protection services.Edith Cowan University head of social justice Professor Caroline Taylor said the issue with child protection services in the state was of ongoing concern.Professor Taylor said the research she had conducted in previous years had revealed that child protection services operated in an almost constant state of crisis. (thecourier.com.au)
  • This book is unusually broad in scope, analyzing the politics of social programs that are well known (such as Social Security and welfare) and less well known but still important (such as workers' compensation, home mortgage interest deduction, and the Americans with Disabilities Act). (princeton.edu)
  • This largely unnoticed process is reshaping the aims and the boundaries of the welfare state and rolling back the universal approach cemented under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the 1990s. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • First, principal responsibility should be presumed to belong to the states and localities, unless the problem is a national one, is beyond the resources of individual states, or cuts across state boundaries. (csmonitor.com)
  • Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers ," NBER Working Papers 7363, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
  • Welfare state services are also provided at varying territorial levels of government. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the millions of government workers who require the welfare state for their continued employment, a powerful political class emerges. (theweek.com)
  • Some of this has to do with each state 's autonomy and their ability to decide where the grant money from the government goes. (ipl.org)
  • The failure of welfare was described in graphic detail by the Government yesterday, with Tony Blair taking charge of a campaign to deliver more help to the poor, while the well-off provide more help for themselves. (independent.co.uk)
  • The Federal Government and Child Welfare Information Gateway do not have the authority to intervene in individual child welfare cases. (childwelfare.gov)
  • The federal government periodically conducts the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) of state child welfare systems to achieve three goals. (oregon.gov)
  • When fighting battles against corporations, anarchists did not call for the government to enact labor laws, but criticized the state for using its police and military to defend corporate interests. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Welfare, social security, and other government benefit schemes were created in response to social movements, not out of governmental beneficence, just as good benefits in many private corporations are the result of strong labor movements which forced the owners to reimburse the workers for a greater portion of their labor than was the case previously. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • The long pending Transgender Welfare Board (TWB) will finally see light of the day with the Maharashtra government making a provision of Rs 5 crore for welfare of the community. (indiatimes.com)
  • The Transgender Welfare Board was first conceptualised in 2014 by the previous government. (indiatimes.com)
  • Moreover, thousands of old soldiers lived in homes maintained by the federal government or the states. (independent.org)
  • The American welfare state is supposed to be a pale imitation of "true" welfare states in Europe and Canada. (princeton.edu)
  • In Europe and the United States, far-right movements that combine traditional xenophobia with popular anti-austerity rhetoric are on the lookout for new paths of exclusion. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • The welfare state in Europe: still worth having? (lse.ac.uk)
  • Welfare states in Europe fulfil three distinct functions and it is crucial to understand the balance between these functions in assessing their sustainability and effectiveness in dealing with social risks. (lse.ac.uk)
  • All welfare states entail some degree of private-public partnerships wherein the administration and delivery of at least some welfare programs occur through private entities. (wikipedia.org)
  • One important reason is that the United States is adept at creating social programs that benefit the middle and upper-middle classes, but less successful in creating programs for those who need the most help. (princeton.edu)
  • It is a federally funded grant program that allows states to create and administer their own assistance programs for families in need. (ipl.org)
  • Since at least the 1970s a variety of scholars have redefined the U.S. social welfare state to include not only traditional benefit programs (for example Food Stamps and social security) but also a variety of tax benefits that are "hidden" or "submerged" forms of "welfare for the wealthy. (ssrn.com)
  • On this page you can find data and federally required reports from the Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare Division and related programs. (oregon.gov)
  • By federal law, SSBG funds must be administered by the same agency that administers child welfare and foster care/adoption programs - this report describes the services funded with SSBG within ODHS. (oregon.gov)
  • The present analysis takes the middle ground between the utilitarian and the rent-seeking explanations for state-sponsored income-insurance programs. (springer.com)
  • The test of reform's success, then, is whether in the long run the largely urban, largely minority, welfare-reliant "ghetto poor" culture is absorbed into the mainstream American culture-whether "underclass" neighborhoods improve, employment rises, the out-of-wedlock birth ratio declines, the streets become safer, and children do better in school. (brookings.edu)
  • Title XX of the Social Security Act gives States increased flexibility to offer a wider range of services to a broader population of adults and children. (oregon.gov)
  • Douglas Mpay, an immigrant from Angola who is seeking asylum in the U.S., said losing his municipal welfare benefits would force his wife and two children out of their apartment with few options for other places to turn. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that, in order to be considered as an adoptive placement option for children in the custody of the state, family members, and other Native families must file formal adoption cases. (narf.org)
  • Christopher Howard is one of the most original and provocative students of the American welfare state-and this book splendidly sums up his insights. (princeton.edu)
  • Has Sweden always flown the flag for equality and welfare? (lu.se)