The Role of Food Stamps in Welfare Reforms

1982 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
J. Fred Giertz ◽  
Dennis H. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Food Stamps ◽  
Welfare Reforms

Child Poverty in Britain: Past Lessons and Future Prospects

2011 ◽  
Vol 218 ◽  
pp. R7-R19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Child Poverty ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Government Benefits ◽  
Welfare Reforms

The previous Labour government pledged to abolish child poverty and introduced a range of welfare reforms that emphasised the role of work as the primary route out of poverty. This culminated in the Child Poverty Act (2010) which commits all future governments to the abolition of child poverty. This paper examines New Labour's record on child poverty and examines the factors responsible for its change. While the welfare reforms of the late 1990s did increase work among families with children, this didn't translate into large falls in child poverty. Those entering work still relied on substantial increases in government benefits to lift them over the poverty line. The current coalition government has reaffirmed its commitment to the Child Poverty Act and is also emphasising the role of work. The lessons of the past decade cast severe doubt on whether the current coalition government strategy of promoting work will be any more successful in reducing child poverty. With planned benefit cuts in the pipeline we could well experience some substantial increases in child poverty over the coming years.

scholarly journals Activation and Active Ageing? Mature-Age Jobseekers' Experience of Employment Services

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-658
Author(s):  
Dina Bowman ◽  
Michael McGann ◽  
Helen Kimberley ◽  
Simon Biggs
Keyword(s):  
Active Ageing ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Welfare Reforms ◽  
Policy Discourses

The number of mature-age Australians registered with employment services is growing, with mature-age jobseekers spending longer unemployed and on income support than younger jobseekers. However, the role of employment services in extending working lives has so far received little attention in policy discourses on ageing and employment. This article examines the effectiveness of Australia's employment services system in supporting mature-age jobseekers, drawing upon interviews conducted as part of wider research on unemployment and underemployment in mature-age. We find that the overriding experience among mature-age jobseekers’ is of a system that exudes ‘carelessness’. We situate mature-age jobseekers’ experiences of systemic carelessness within the context of wider welfare reforms that have contributed to the de-professionalisation and routinisation of employment services’ delivery.

Beyond Crisis and Dissonance – the Restructuring of the Japanese Welfare State under Globalisation

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mutsuko Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Ageing Society ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Family ◽  
Welfare Reforms ◽  
The Welfare State

The crisis and dissonance in a society under globalisation tend to be associated with suspicion against the welfare state. This article however attempts to argue for the crucial role of the welfare state in the formation of the politics of welfare that shapes a basic framework for a policy response to changes in the welfare society. The discussion sets out by illustrating the impacts of globalisation in contemporary Japan with special reference to the change in family and working practices. It goes on to analyse the current policy debates regarding socialisation of care in which ideological conflicts are manifested. Despite growing vulnerability of the family in Japan's ageing society, informal care-giving work tends to be undervalued and the stigma attached to the welfare state regarding elderly care and public assistance is persistent. It will be discussed how the long-run welfare reforms, as efforts of policy change, can be made sense of in Japan for escaping from a vicious circle of crisis and dissonance.

US immigration and farm law spats are ahead

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Farm Bill ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Nutrition Assistance ◽  
Immigration Reforms ◽  
Production Subsidies ◽  
Welfare Reforms

Significance Democrats and moderate Republicans voted against the Agriculture and Nutrition Act 2018 because it contained measures they oppose to tighten welfare entitlements, specifically food stamps (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP) while conservative Republicans in the Freedom Caucus objected to the modest immigration reforms in the bill. Impacts Any final farm bill is likely to be more like Senate’s proposed more moderate version. An immigration reform bill is unlikely to be agreed ahead of the farm bill receiving a second vote. If a farm bill is passed, food production subsidies are likely to see only modest cuts. Republicans could lose votes if Congress does not pass welfare reforms.

The New Philanthropy: The Emergence of the Bradford City Guild of Help

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Cahill ◽  
Tony Jowitt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
National Council ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Welfare Reforms

ABSTRACTThe early twentieth century has been seen as a crucial period in the development of British social policy. However, attention has been concentrated almost entirely on the increased role of the state, and in particular on the Liberal ‘welfare reforms’ after 1906. These developments have tended to mask the significant changes that were taking place in the field of voluntary charitable effort. One organization which emerged out of the ferment surrounding social policy in late Victorian and Edwardian England was the Guild of Help movement.The first guild was formed in Bradford in 1904 and embodied a new approach to the organization of charity. It rapidly expanded from Bradford throughout England and Wales and was in 1919 the leading organization which took part in the merger which created the National Council for Social Service. In this article the creation of the guild will be examined within the context of the changing economic situation, the growth of the labour movement and the nature of existing charitable provision in an attempt to give a critical assessment of the nature and role of this new body.

Welfare and the Role of Women: The Juvenile Court Movement

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Clapp
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Welfare Reforms ◽  
The Welfare State

Only in recent years, largely as a consequence of developments in women's history, have scholars begun to explore the role of women in the building of the welfare state. By placing gender at the centre of their vision, these historians have questioned established certainties and undercut old paradigms. Analysis of the role of women in welfare has, moreover, influenced the wider history of women, bringing to light new facets of a major organizing concept for historians of women: the interaction between public and private spheres. This paper, therefore, has two linked purposes: to review recent scholarship on women's role in welfare and, through an analysis of the juvenile court movement, one of the major social welfare reforms of the Progressive Era, to identify issues of controversy and debate among historians of women and welfare.

scholarly journals The Role of Food Stamps in Consumption Stabilization

2003 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Gundersen ◽  
James P. Ziliak
Keyword(s):  
Food Stamps
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