Social Welfare Policy - Past to Present

Social Welfare Policy Student Institution Social Welfare Policy Social welfare policy refers to the actions, rules and laws that are meant to improve the lives of individuals in a particular community. This is an imperative initiative that is usually sponsored by the government which has interest with the livelihoods of its citizens. Moreover, social welfare is diversified in the many sectors that contribute to the economy. In this case, education, and development among others fall under the areas that the U.S. government is striving for positive changes. In America, social welfare policy has been successive because of the effectiveness of specialists who are conversant and skillful on advocacy, analysis and the creating of justice based systems. During the past, American social welfare mainly focused on improving, especially at the individual level. This means that the government provided aid to the less fortunate in the society. As a matter of fact, poor housing system was prevalent in the American community during the colonial era. Therefore, the government initiated programs that could improve this condition that was progressively growing. Contrary, this has changed recently as the government mainly focuses on social welfare at a national level (Lund, 2002). In this regard, the U.S government initiatives seek to bring development across its states with the help of citizens. Citizens are given an opportunity to help solve their problems by implementation of the policies. On the other hand, there are some of the methods that have remained the same since the colonial period. This refers to the problem of unemployment and the pension plan policies that started a long time ago. In this context, for example, the government used to provide and avail employment opportunities to its citizens as a way of reducing this men...