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Chapter Nineteen Social Welfare

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 2 Social Welfare in the United States America has been slower than other nations to embrace the welfare state State and private enterprise play a large role in administering welfare programs Non-governmental organizations play a large role

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 3 Who Benefits? The public insists that it be only those who cannot help themselves There is a slow, steady change in popular views, distinguishing between the deserving and the undeserving The American public prefers to give services, not money, to help the “deserving poor”

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 4 Majoritarian Politics Costs and benefits are widely distributed –Examples: Social Security Act, Medicare Act Question of legitimacy: conservatives argued that nothing in the Constitution authorized the federal government to spend money this way

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 5 Social Security Act of 1935 Insurance for the unemployed and elderly—workers contribute and benefit Everybody is eligible for insurance programs Assistance for dependent children, the blind, and the elderly Assistance programs are means tested

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 6 Reforming Welfare Programs Problem: there will soon be insufficient people paying Social Security taxes to provide benefits for every retired person Most solutions are opposed by the public Health care issues will remain on the political agenda

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 7 Possible Solutions for Social Security Raising the retirement age to 70, freezing retirement benefits, and raising Social Security taxes Privatizing Social Security Combine the first two reforms, and allow citizens to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes into mutual funds

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 8 Medicare Act of 1965 Medical benefits were omitted in 1935 in order to ensure passage of the Social Security Act Covers medical care for the poor and pays doctors’ bills for the elderly

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 9 Client Politics Family assistance politics are less about cost than about the legitimacy of beneficiaries –Example: TANF program Beneficiaries changed: , able- bodied adults had a harder time getting benefits, but child-care spending in most states rose by 50% or more

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 | 10 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block grant program Had strict federal requirements about work, limited how long families can receive federally funded benefits By 2003, welfare caseloads had declined nationally by 60%

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