THE GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAM

The Great Society Program

The Great Society Program

Introduction

The American welfare state appeared throughout the twentieth century. Over the course of a century years, the territory fashioned a convoluted world broad web of social protection and means-tested programs, financed and administered at all grades of government. (www.specialcollections.library.emory.edu)

 

Discussion

American antipoverty principle was, in its colonial sources, a patchwork of in the local area administered programs proposing negligible aid to the most conspicuously blameless amidst the destitute. Administrators were preoccupied with the social hazards of “pauperism,” a dispirited dependency amidst the poor. While the programs echoed a salutary symbolism of public anxiety with ...