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the way in which social welfare policies have developed throughout history. Discussion In the earliest days of the country, "local villages and towns recognized an obligation to aid the needy
when family effort and assistance provided by neighbors and friends were not sufficient" (Historical development). Aid like this usually came in the form of the "poor relief system and almshouses
or workhouses" (Historical development). Over time, aid was provided on a more organized basis, "usually through cash allowances to certain categories among the poor" (Historical development). (This sounds very much
like the present welfare system, in which certain poor people are given money for a period of time if they qualify.) This system appears to have worked well enough in
the Colonial period, but as the nation became industrialized, it was no longer efficient, since the U.S. was transforming from an agricultural nation to a nation of employees "who were
dependent on a continuing flow of money income to provide for themselves and their families" (Historical development). At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, both
federal and state agencies began to recognize that "that certain risks in an increasingly industrialized economy could best be met through a social insurance approach to public welfare" (Historical development).
That is, these public programs would "ensure that protection was available as a matter of right as contrasted with a public assistance approach whereby only those persons in need would
be eligible for benefits" (Historical development). Such programs, in the U.S. as in most industrialized nations, began with workers compensation (Historical development). The first law covering "civilian employees of the
Government in hazardous jobs was adopted in 1908" and in 1911, the "first State compensation law to be held constitutional was enacted" (Historical development). By 1929, there were workers compensation
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