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Poor Law (United States)
Popular accounts suggest that the origin of public assistance to the poor was borne of the deep and persistent unemployment of the Great Depression and that its first cry was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of the Social Security Act in ...
- Canada
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Canada)
- Aging Policy (Canada)
- Bowers, Frank Swithun Barrington (1908–1992)
- Canadian Association of Social Workers
- Canadian Council on Social Development
- Cassidy, Harry (1900–1951)
- Child Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Community Development (Canada)
- Community Economic Development (Canada)
- Criminal Justice Policy (Canada)
- Davidson, George Forrester (1909–1995)
- Disability Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Education Policy (Canada)
- Family Allowance/Child Tax Benefit (Canada)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Food Assistance Policy (Canada)
- French Language and Identity (Canada)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (Canada)
- Group Work (Canada)
- Health Policy (Canada)
- Hendry, Charles Eric (1903–1979)
- Human Rights (Canada)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- International Social Welfare
- Kelso, John Joseph (1864–1935)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Mental Health Policy (Canada)
- Multiculturalism (Canada)
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Philanthropy (Canada)
- Poverty (Canada)
- Quebec Province Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Race and Ethnic Relations (Canada)
- Religion and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (Canada)
- Small Systems Social Work (Canada)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Security (Canada)
- Social Welfare (Canada): Before the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Canada): Since the Marsh Report
- Social Work Profession (Canada)
- Structural Social Work (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Canada)
- The Marsh Report (Canada)
- Touzel, Bessie (1904–1997)
- Urwick, Edward Johns (1867–1945)
- War and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Welfare Capitalism (Canada)
- Whitton, Charlotte (1896–1975)
- Women and Poverty (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Mexico
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Mexico)
- Aging Policy (Mexico)
- Child Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Constitution of 1917 (Mexico)
- Disability Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Education Policy (Mexico)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Food Assistance Policy (Mexico)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (Mexico)
- General Insane Asylum: La Castañeda (Mexico)
- Housing Policy (Mexico)
- Hygiene and Public Health Policy During the Porfiriato (Mexico)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- International Social Welfare
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Land Reform (Mexico)
- Medicine and Popular Healing Practices in Colonial Mexico
- Mexico City Poor House
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Peasant Movements and Social Programs (Mexico)
- Philanthropy (Mexico)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty Policy (Mexico)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Security (Mexico)
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Before 1867
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Since 1867
- Social Work Profession (Mexico)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Mexico)
- The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health (Mexico)
- Welfare Capitalism (Mexico)
- Welfare Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- United States
- The Survey (United States)
- Abbott, Edith (1876–1957)
- Abbott, Grace (1878–1939)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (United States)
- Addams, Jane (1860–1935)
- African Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Aging Policy (United States)
- Aid to Dependent Children/Aid to Families With Dependent Children (United States)
- Altmeyer, Arthur Joseph (1891–1972)
- American Public Welfare Association (United States)
- Asian Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Ball, Robert Myers (b. 1914)
- Brace, Charles Loring (1826–1890)
- Charity Organization Societies (United States)
- Child Welfare Policy (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Cohen, Wilbur Joseph (1913–1987)
- Conservative Views on Social Welfare
- Criminal Justice Policy (United States)
- Disability Policy (United States)
- DuBois, W. E. B. (1868–1963)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Education Policy (United States)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- Food Assistance Policy (United States)
- Frazier, E. Franklin (1894–1962)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (United States)
- Hamilton, Alice (1869–1970)
- Health Policy (United States)
- Hispanic Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Homelessness (United States)
- Homestead Act (United States)
- Hopkins, Harry Lloyd (1890–1946)
- Housing Policy (United States)
- Hull House (United States)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- International Social Welfare
- Juvenile Justice Policy (United States)
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929–1968)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (United States)
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford (1858–1932)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (1843–1905)
- Lurie, Harry Lawrence (1892–1973)
- Mental Health Policy (United States)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Mutual Aid (United States)
- National Association of Social Workers (United States)
- National Conference on Social Welfare (United States)
- Perkins, Frances (1882–1965)
- Philanthropy (United States)
- Poor Law (United States)
- Poverty (United States)
- Progressive Era (United States)
- Rank and File Movement (United States)
- Rankin, Jeannette Pickering (1880–1973)
- Religion and Social Welfare (United States)
- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (1884–1962)
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945)
- Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813)
- Sanger, Margaret Higgins (1879–1966)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Settlement Houses (United States)
- Social Gospel (United States)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Social Security (United States)
- Social Welfare (United States): Before the Social Security Act
- Social Welfare (United States): Since the Social Security Act
- Social Work Profession (United States)
- State Boards of Charities (United States)
- Substance Abuse Policy (United States)
- Supplemental Security Income (United States)
- Tax Expenditures (United States)
- The New Deal (United States)
- Van Kleeck, Mary (1883–1972)
- Voluntarism (United States)
- Wald, Lillian D. (1867–1940)
- War and Social Welfare (United States)
- Welfare Capitalism (United States)
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1862–1931)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
- Work Relief (United States)
- Young, Whitney (1922–1971)
- Criminal Justice, Delinquency, and Crime
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Brace, Charles Loring (United States)
- Child Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Child Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Child Welfare Policy (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Criminal Justice Policy (Canada)
- Criminal Justice Policy (United States)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Homelessness (United States)
- Hull House (United States)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- Juvenile Justice Policy (United States)
- Kelso, John Joseph (Canada)
- Poverty (Canada)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty (United States)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Mexico)
- Substance Abuse Policy (United States)
- Education and Social Service Programs
- The Survey (United States)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Canada)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Mexico)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (United States)
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Bowers, Frank Swithun Barrington (Canada)
- Brace, Charles Loring (United States)
- Canadian Association of Social Workers
- Charity Organization Societies (United States)
- Child Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Child Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Child Welfare Policy (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Criminal Justice Policy (Canada)
- Criminal Justice Policy (United States)
- Education Policy (Canada)
- Education Policy (Mexico)
- Education Policy (United States)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- French Language and Identity (Canada)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (Canada)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (Mexico)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (United States)
- Group Work (Canada)
- Health Policy (Canada)
- Health Policy (United States)
- Homelessness (United States)
- Hull House (United States)
- Human Rights (Canada)
- Juvenile Justice Policy (United States)
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford (United States)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (United States)
- Mental Health Policy (Canada)
- Mental Health Policy (United States)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- National Association of Social Workers (United States)
- National Conference on Social Welfare (United States)
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Philanthropy (Canada)
- Philanthropy (Mexico)
- Philanthropy (United States)
- Religion and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Religion and Social Welfare (United States)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Settlement Houses (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (United States)
- Small Systems Social Work (Canada)
- Social Work Profession (Canada)
- Social Work Profession (Mexico)
- Social Work Profession (United States)
- Structural Social Work (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Mexico)
- Substance Abuse Policy (United States)
- Touzel, Bessie (Canada)
- Urwick, Edward Johns (Canada)
- Voluntarism (United States)
- Wald, Lillian D. (United States)
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (United States)
- Employment and Labor
- Disability Policy (Canada)
- Disability Policy (Mexico)
- Disability Policy (United States)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (United States)
- Land Reform (Mexico)
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Perkins, Frances (United States)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Welfare Capitalism (Canada)
- Welfare Capitalism (Mexico)
- Welfare Capitalism (United States)
- Women and Poverty (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
- Work Relief (United States)
- Families and the Life Cycle
- Aged
- Children
- Aid to Dependent Children/Aid to Families With Dependent Children (United States)
- Brace, Charles Loring (United States)
- Child Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Child Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Child Welfare Policy (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Family Allowance/Child Tax Benefit (Canada)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Juvenile Justice Policy (United States)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Families
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Homelessness (United States)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Women
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Sanger, Margaret Higgins (United States)
- Women and Poverty (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
- Health and Mental Health
- Disability Policy (Canada)
- Disability Policy (Mexico)
- Disability Policy (United States)
- General Insane Asylum: La Castañeda (Mexico)
- Hamilton, Alice (United States)
- Health Policy (Canada)
- Health Policy (United States)
- Hygiene and Public Health Policy During the Porfiriato (Mexico)
- Medicine and Popular Healing Practices in Colonial Mexico
- Mental Health Policy (Canada)
- Mental Health Policy (United States)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Mexico)
- Substance Abuse Policy (United States)
- Income Maintenance Programs
- Abbott, Edith (United States)
- Aging Policy (Canada)
- Aging Policy (Mexico)
- Aging Policy (United States)
- Aid to Dependent Children/Aid to Families With Dependent Children (United States)
- Altmeyer, Arthur Joseph (United States)
- American Public Welfare Association (United States)
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Ball, Robert Myers (United States)
- Charity Organization Societies (United States)
- Cohen, Wilbur Joseph (United States)
- Conservative Views on Social Welfare
- Disability Policy (Canada)
- Disability Policy (Mexico)
- Disability Policy (United States)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Family Allowance/Child Tax Benefit (Canada)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- Food Assistance Policy (Canada)
- Food Assistance Policy (Mexico)
- Food Assistance Policy (United States)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (United States)
- Mexico City Poor House
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Perkins, Frances (United States)
- Poor Law (United States)
- Poverty (Canada)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty (United States)
- Poverty Policy (Mexico)
- Quebec Province Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Rank and File Movement (United States)
- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (United States)
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (United States)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Social Security (Canada)
- Social Security (Mexico)
- Social Security (United States)
- Social Welfare (Canada): Before the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Canada): Since the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Before 1867
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Since 1867
- Social Welfare (United States): Before the Social Security Act
- Social Welfare (United States): Since the Social Security Act
- State Boards of Charities (United States)
- Supplemental Security Income (United States)
- Tax Expenditures (United States)
- The Marsh Report (Canada)
- The New Deal (United States)
- Van Kleeck, Mary (United States)
- War and Social Welfare (Canada)
- War and Social Welfare (United States)
- Welfare Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Mexico)
- Women and Poverty (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
- Work Relief (United States)
- Race and Ethnic Relations
- Abbott, Edith (United States)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Canada)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Mexico)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (United States)
- Addams, Jane (United States)
- African Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Asian Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Criminal Justice Policy (Canada)
- Criminal Justice Policy (United States)
- DuBois, W. E. B. (United States)
- Education Policy (Canada)
- Education Policy (Mexico)
- Education Policy (United States)
- Frazier, E. Franklin (United States)
- French Language and Identity (Canada)
- Hispanic Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (United States)
- Multiculturalism (Canada)
- Quebec Province Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Race and Ethnic Relations (Canada)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Young, Whitney (United States)
- Social and Economic Development
- Canadian Council on Social Development
- Community Development (Canada)
- Community Economic Development (Canada)
- Constitution of 1917 (Mexico)
- Davidson, George Forrester (Canada)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Food Assistance Policy (Canada)
- Food Assistance Policy (Mexico)
- Food Assistance Policy (United States)
- Homestead Act (United States)
- Housing Policy (Mexico)
- Housing Policy (United States)
- Hull House (United States)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- International Social Welfare
- Land Reform (Mexico)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Peasant Movements and Social Programs (Mexico)
- Philanthropy (Mexico)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty Policy (Mexico)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (United States)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Social Work Profession (Mexico)
- Structural Social Work (Canada)
- The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health (Mexico)
- Wald, Lillian D. (United States)
- Welfare Capitalism (Canada)
- Welfare Capitalism (Mexico)
- Welfare Capitalism (United States)
- Welfare Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Mexico)
- Government and Social Welfare
- Abbott, Edith (United States)
- Abbott, Grace (United States)
- Addams, Jane (United States)
- Conservative Views on Social Welfare
- Constitution of 1917 (Mexico)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- French Language and Identity (Canada)
- Hopkins, Harry Lloyd (United States)
- Housing Policy (Mexico)
- Housing Policy (United States)
- Human Rights (Canada)
- Hygiene and Public Health Policy During the Porfiriato (Mexico)
- International Social Welfare
- Land Reform (Mexico)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Multiculturalism (Canada)
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Peasant Movements and Social Programs (Mexico)
- Poor Law (United States)
- Poverty (Canada)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty (United States)
- Poverty Policy (Mexico)
- Progressive Era (United States)
- Quebec Province Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (United States)
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (United States)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Gospel (United States)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Social Security (Canada)
- Social Security (Mexico)
- Social Security (United States)
- Social Welfare (Canada): Before the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Canada): Since the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Before 1867
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Since 1867
- Social Welfare (United States): Before the Social Security Act
- Social Welfare (United States): Since the Social Security Act
- State Boards of Charities (United States)
- Structural Social Work (Canada)
- Tax Expenditures (United States)
- The Marsh Report (Canada)
- The New Deal (United States)
- The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health (Mexico)
- War and Social Welfare (Canada)
- War and Social Welfare (United States)
- Welfare Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Mexico)
- Nongovernmental Social Welfare
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Brace, Charles Loring (United States)
- Charity Organization Societies (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Group Work (Canada)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (United States)
- Mutual Aid (United States)
- National Association of Social Workers (United States)
- National Conference on Social Welfare (United States)
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Philanthropy (Canada)
- Philanthropy (Mexico)
- Philanthropy (United States)
- Progressive Era (United States)
- Race and Ethnic Relations (Canada)
- Religion and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Religion and Social Welfare (United States)
- Rush, Benjamin (United States)
- Sanger, Margaret Higgins (United States)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Settlement Houses (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (United States)
- Social Gospel (United States)
- Social Work Profession (Canada)
- Social Work Profession (Mexico)
- Social Work Profession (United States)
- Voluntarism (United States)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
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