Abstract
The modern American welfare state, initiated under Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s and augmented under Lyndon Johnson during the 1960s, has been a sweeping, remarkable social innovation. The welfare state has achieved countless victories of caring over indifference, many of which we today take for granted. Although not perfect, social welfare policy has creatively, sometimes courageously, met the needs of the aged, the ill, the disabled and the economically vulnerable. For 40 or 50 years, the American welfare state was largely a success.
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