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| | Welfare state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ironically, the idea of a welfare state receives the most criticism in the country with the least amount of welfare services in the developed world - namely the United States. | | | In a welfare state, the poor and lower-middle classes receive certain services free of charge, whereas in non-welfare states they would have to pay for those services, and could possibly not afford them. | | | The term was not, however, applied to all states offering social protection. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state
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| | The Welfare State |
| | The United States is sometimes described as a ‘liberal' welfare regime, in the sense that it represents individualism, laissez-faire, residualism and a punitive view of poverty. | | | The "welfare state" usually refers to an ideal model of provision, where the state accepts responsibility for the provision of comprehensive and universal welfare for its citizens. | | | In many "welfare states", social protection is not delivered by the state at all, but by a combination of independent, voluntary and government services. |
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http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/wstate.htm
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| | Talk:Welfare state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most states are impoverished third-world states anyway (I don't have any sources right here, but I could guesstimate that there are 30 wealthy countries, 50 in-between and 100 poor countries), and even so there are quite a few wealthy welfare states. | | | However, while the "grossly oversimplified" arguments against the welfare state (all made by previous contributors) are assertions made without any evidence, the rebuttals are backed up by citations and evidence. | | | As this page stands, it appears to be heavily biased in favor of welfare-statism, presenting schoolboy rebuttal (without even qualifying it by saying "advocates of the welfare state claim...") of grossly oversimplified arguments against welfare statism without presenting either the arguments or the facts that favor liberalism over the welfare state. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Welfare_state
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| | The Theology of the Welfare State by Gary North |
| | Historically, church and state have competed for the allegiance of the masses as the primary deliverer. | | | To assert the final authority of the state in matters of life and death, they insist that others not be allowed to pay for a feeding tube with their own money. | | | The state seeks to replace families, churches, and local voluntary agencies as the unitary voice of authority. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north397.html
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| | TCS Daily - Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism |
| | The conventional wisdom is that the intent of the Welfare State is to reduce the disparity between the unfortunate and the well-off. | | | However, no one in either party is willing to talk plainly about the failures and inequities of the Welfare State. | | | The Welfare State supposedly redistributes income and reduces poverty. |
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092903A
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| | Monthly Review: The state of welfare: United States 2003 |
| | (5) In addition to cutting welfare rolls, expanding work requirements, and imposing time limits, the legislation provides block grants to the states, which can determine how the funds are to be used and who is eligible for various benefits and services. | | | Even in the 1970s, after the expansion of welfare via President Johnson's War on Poverty, the United States still lagged far behind most of the West. | | | Monthly Review: The state of welfare: United States 2003 |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_5_55/ai_108882470
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| | Socialism and The Welfare State |
| | Such an omni-competent state is no ordinary state, one ruling over society; it is a total state, one replacing society. | | | What about the welfare state as exists in, for example, Sweden, other countries in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States. | | | In practice, the ideocratic state must therefore be a partocratic one as well. |
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http://lamar.colostate.edu/~grjan/socialismprimer.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State: Books: Michael B. Katz |
| | Katz is a historian on welfare in the United States. | | | Well documented and passionately argued, this lucid and persuasive defense of public welfare insists that undoing the welfare state will change the reality of American citizenship, making it not a right but a privilege open only to those with money. | | | He notes how legal services in the United States receives only a fraction of the money alloted to it in Ontario and Britain. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805069291?v=glance
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| | Oppose the Federal Welfare State |
| | In fact, it is in the self-interest of the bureaucrats and politicians who control the welfare state to encourage dependency. | | | Therefore, all those concerned with restoring liberty and protecting civil society from the maw of the omnipotent state should support efforts to eliminate the welfare state, or, at the very least, reduce federal control over the provision of social services. | | | By contrast, the federal welfare state is neither moral nor constitutional. |
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http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr021303b.htm
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| | The Conservative Welfare State by Anthony Gregory |
| | It is the liberals who are confused when they try to use the state to protect the poor masses against the wealthy and powerful, for such a thing has never been accomplished. | | | Bush, like many conservative nationalists, sees the state as a foolproof instrument for managing and improving upon society, and he has acted upon that principle like no other president in recent history. | | | Nixon imposed wage and price controls, Reagan practiced protectionism, Bush the First signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory67.html
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| | How The Welfare State Works |
| | The power to regulate commerce among the States and with the Indian tribes, does not imply a right to tax commerce to subsidize the education of those with the least impact on commerce--or of anybody else. | | | But by 1800, there was already a clear consensus in America, that the General Welfare clause in Article I, Section 8, was a defining limitation, not an extension of the specific authorizations that follow. | | | Under such circumstances, Courts for centuries have sometimes enforced an obligation on the party which caused the expectation. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/welfare.htm
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| | The Welfare State We're In |
| | This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | | | A total of nearly 5.2 million people of working age are not working and are in receipt of state hand-outs. | | | We don't do long-term care." But such honesty is not a part of the welfare state. |
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http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com
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| | Amazon.com: A Life of One's Own : Individual Rights and the Welfare State: Books: David Kelley |
| | He provides a well-reasoned case for the claim that the welfare state is both without a moral foundation and without a practical justification in the actual results it achieves. | | | It flies in the face of the Founders' legal conception of the state - which is based on the protection of rights to life, liberty, and property. | | | Thus, it was up to the state to counteract the "coercive" power of the industrialists. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188257771X?v=glance
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| | World Socialist Movement - State: Welfare |
| | As part of this most ambitious of programmes to sanitise capitalism, the welfare state was launched as a social and economic safety net. | | | This is another demonstration that the reforms promised by politicians in order to obtain votes, far from removing the problems that they claim to remedy, merely ameliorate them at best. | | | The Economist, (23 October 1993) stated rightly that: |
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http://www.worldsocialism.org/wsm-pages/welfstat.html
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| | Welfare Caseloads: Index |
| | State by State Welfare Caseloads since 1993 (Recipients) | | | Caseload Comparison since the signing of the Welfare Law: Aug. | | | State by State Welfare Caseloads since 1993 (Families) |
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http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/tables.htm
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| | Welfare state lives - The Washington Times: Commentary - February 19, 2005 |
| | Section 8 begins, "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States," and then specifies these powers. | | | The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 " which contains the "general welfare clause" " seeks to restrain, not expand, federal government. | | | Welfare state lives - The Washington Times: Commentary - February 19, 2005 |
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http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050218-082725-7400r.htm
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| | Samuelson: Protecting the Welfare State - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com |
| | And finally, countries with big welfare states have adopted taxes that minimize economic damage. | | | In Europe, taxes approach 50 percent of national income (as opposed to about 30 percent in the United States). | | | The welfare state will be resilient only if we make it so. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4408847
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| | Immigration and the Welfare State |
| | We must end welfare state subsidies for illegal immigrants. | | | Why should lawbreakers obtain a free pass, while those seeking to immigrate legally face years of paperwork and long waits for a visa? | | | With our virtually unguarded borders, almost any determined individual- including a potential terrorist- can enter the United States. |
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http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst080805.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Business The future of welfare reform |
| | It says it wants to seek a political consensus before proceeding with radical reform - but time may be running out. | | | Margaret Thatcher took on the unions and the welfare state | | | Focus on poverty in the UK after 60 years of the welfare state |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4720727.stm
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| | Privatization vs. Welfare State: Israel's Economic Crisis |
| | The United States and Europe offer two very different economic-cultural templates. | | | Netanyahu and his backers talk economics, stating their case in terms of credit ratings, inflation, growth and budget deficits. | | | The job of the state was to prevent the infringement of basic liberties — foremost among which was the inviolability of personal property. |
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http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1851
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| | NCSLnet: Welfare Reform |
| | NCSL Home > State and Federal Issues: Issue Areas > Human Services > Welfare Reform | | | Highlights of 2004 Legislation: State legislation regarding public assistance programs focused on refining programs to meet families' needs. | | | This edition includes the most recent updates and a more detailed analysis of separate state program (SSP) caseloads. |
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http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/welfare/welfare.htm
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| | Economic Success Clearinghouse (formerly Welfare Information Network) |
| | Welfare ~ Cash assistance for low-income families with dependent children | | | Economic Success Clearinghouse connects you to resources about effective policies, programs and financing strategies that help low-income and working poor families. | | | Workforce development ~ Services to help individuals connect to the job market, develop work-related skills, sustain employment, and advance in the labor market |
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http://www.financeproject.org/irc/win.asp
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| | ZNet Commentary: State of Welfare |
| | The European welfare state is dying - not so the state of welfare! | | | 'Welfare State' - described as the ideal model of provision, where the state accepts responsibility for the provision of comprehensive welfare for its citizens - in different European countries it had different faces. | | | What Western European states merely do, is shifting their agenda. |
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http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-11/24noll.cfm
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| | BBC - History - The Welfare State - Never Ending Reform |
| | Histories of the welfare state usually begin around 1945. | | | BBC - History - The Welfare State - Never Ending Reform | | | Local authorities and voluntarily run hospitals, together with a national system of panel doctors were financed from health insurance contributions, which were set by the state and collected through mutually owned societies. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/welfare/field_01.shtml
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| | The Real Injustice in New Orleans: The Welfare State's Assault on the Productive Individual by Ron Pisaturo -- ... |
| | Compare that to $1,100 and under $1,000 per person in the Bushes-governed Gulf-coast states of Texas and Florida, respectively; yet the federal income taxes paid by individuals in Louisiana is roughly $1,000 per capita less than in those other states. | | | One of the phoniest criticisms made by the welfare-statists is that money was diverted from the welfare state to the “war” in Iraq. | | | Last but not least on the welfare parade is environmentalism, which expands the welfare state to include care for non-humans, and the cost of which is incalculable in its prohibition on innovation. |
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http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4414
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| | H-SHGAPE Discussion: Women and the Welfare State |
| | Gwendolyn Mink, The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942 (Ithaca, 1995) | | | "Working Women and the State: the Case of Canada, 1889-1945." Atlantis 6 (2) (1981): 1-9. | | | The "Benevolent State": The Growth of Welfare in Canada. |
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| | The Intellectual Activist |
| | In a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters—not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency. | | | It is a perfect summary of the 40-year history of the welfare state and its public housing projects. | | | It took four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. |
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http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026
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| | OpinionJournal - The Western Front |
| | That is an indictment of the welfare state and all its antipoverty programs. | | | It was an extreme example of what the welfare state has done to the poor for decades: use the promise of food, shelter and other necessities to lure most of the poor to a few central points and then leave them stranded and nearly helpless. | | | For decades city, state and federal officials poured good money after bad into public housing and other programs. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110007250
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| | TCS Daily - The FlexDollar Welfare State |
| | The taxes that will be required tomorrow to meet the promises that we make with Medicare and Social Security today are staggering to contemplate. | | | My own view is that it is very risky for Republicans and conservatives to embrace the FlexDollar welfare state. | | | However, one possible reason that people under-estimate the cost of the welfare state is that much of that cost has been shifted into the future. |
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=020404A
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| | Publications - Comparative Welfare State Data |
| | Several new variables were added and most variables were updated to 2000.. | | | This update includes the original Comparative Welfare States Data Set, and updates and additions by Stephens, Brady, and Beckfield. | | | In the initial stage of data collection in 1989-92, it was the intention of the project directors to collect a wide range of indicators of welfare state development, its causes, and its outcomes on an annual basis for the period 1945-89. |
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http://www.lisproject.org/publications/welfaredata/welfareaccess.htm
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| | Idaho Department of Health & Welfare |
| | From birth throughout life, we can help enrich and protect the lives of the people of our state. | | | Last year, we helped almost 340,000 people in our state, one out of every four Idahoans. | | | Idaho leaders propose to redesign our state's Medicaid program. |
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http://www.healthandwelfare.idaho.gov
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| | International Seminar on Welfare State Systems |
| | Their papers dealt with themes ranging from general theoretical aspects of welfare state system to the specific situations prevailing in many countries across the world. | | | After three days intense deliberations on the welfare state systems across the world, the seminar participants made a unanimous Declaration, containing ‘Twelve Theses’. | | | A 3-day international seminar on Welfare State Systems: Development and Challenges was held on 9 – 11 April 2001 at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
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http://www.geocities.com/bvivekanandan
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| | H-State Discussion Network |
| | H-State encourages scholarly discussion of welfare state and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids. |
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