this is a discussion board After visiting the three websites

this is a discussion board-- After visiting the three websites listed in Class Session 3 and reading about the history of welfare in the USA, describe in your own words how our current welfare system came to be. What are your thoughts about Sweden\'s welfare system? How would creating a similar system in the USA impact the field of human services? Why does the USA not have a welfare system similar to Sweden?

http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-14-3-a-how-welfare-began-in-the-united-states.html

http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-14-3-b-welfare-to-work-the-states-take-charge.html

http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-14-3-c-the-swedish-model-welfare-for-everyone

Solution

# America seemed like an endless prosperity in the 1920s. The Great Depression struck in a hard way to see millions of elderly, disabled, and single mothers live at a bare subsistence level and the effect on children was particularly severe. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the initiates to create jobs for the masses who were unemployed and backed the idea of federal aid for the poor children and other dependent persons. It was in the year 1935 a national welfare system was established for the first time in American history.

# Sweden has a well-developed social welfare system that has eliminated poverty by providing extensive governments benefits to everyone. They believe that everyone has a right to health care, family services, old-age pensions, and other social benefits irrespective of their income. Sweden grew steadily and expanded it welfare system. As it did not participate in World War II, it did not make a painful recovery from the war. The vision of the Swedish Democratic Party was a welfare state and aimed at building a system that would provide all social benefits and protection from unemployment financed by taxes from workers and employees, The SDP realized that government could work with private enterprises to produce the necessary growth for the economy. Because it’s a booming economy with less than 1 percent unemployment made the new social welfare schemes possible.

# The task of putting welfare recipients into jobs is not an easy task. This requires moving thousands of people from welfare to work which requires thousands of jobs open. Many welfare recipients are poorly educated, have few job skills, and lack the experience of going to work on a schedule. They may need extra training and guidance to get a suitable job, and going for work requires money. Social welfare measures are created by taxing the workers and employees and if revenues are not there, no social measures work.

# The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (ADFC), welfare let able-bodied adults to avoid work and depend on government handouts. President Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it”, and proposed that anyone receiving welfare should go to work within two years. According to new reformed welfare law, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, the states have the authority to design their own welfare law programs and move the recipients to work. So, a centralized uniform structure of welfare system does not exist in the United States.

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