The explicit aim of these programs is to take people out of poverty, or at least to reduce poverty intensity. If the benefit is high enough to reach the poverty threshold, there are no time limits and the take-up rate is 100%, then poverty is automatically defeated (but this would be much too expensive). Otherwise, when benefits are low and support is not always granted until the end of the pov...

Most yearsfrom the 1880’s to thepresent have seen the enactment of laws establishing new social security programs or expanding existing ones. Programs established before 19.55 have been reported in earlier issues of the Bulletin and in special reports by the Social Security Administration. New legislation affecting the various programs is summarized in the first part of the article; some of the...

Most social scientists, policy makers, and citizens who support the welfare state do so in part because they believe social-welfare programs help to reduce the incidence of poverty. Yet a growing number of critics assert that such programs in fact fail to do so, because too small a share of transfers actually reaches the poor, or because such programs create a welfare/poverty trap, or because t...

Research shows that social work graduate programs offer little education in suicide prevention and intervention, yet social workers' experiences and attitudes regarding suicide education are unknown. This Web-based survey of 598 social workers found that almost all respondents had worked with at least one suicidal client, but most received little, if any, training in suicide prevention or inter...

This study reports on 20 years of private social welfare spending, from 1972 through 199 1. The private sector is playing an increasingly important role in financing the Nation's aggregate social welfare programs; this section assumes a large share of health and medical care expenditures, as well as income-maintenance benefits, the latter in areas of employment-related pensions, group life insu...

Although asset policies and programs are seldom linked to wider theoretical debates in social welfare, this paper contends that an understanding of these debates contextualizes asset interventions and clarifies underlying values and ideological beliefs. Contrasting different normative perspectives in contemporary social welfare theory, the paper suggests that developmentalism offers a congenial...

The message is clear: people want to work for organizations where they feel are engaged and learning. Recently, the organization Benevity in Canada stated that "Today’s employees expecting a greater sense of purpose workplace. In fact, 83% Millennials say would be more loyal their employer when can make difference on social environmental issues at work." Companies engage stewardship also benefi...

The publication of Charles Murray’s (1984) book Losing Ground has rekindled interest in the role ofgovernment in promoting economic equality using redistributive tax and expenditure programs. Murray concludes that spending on poverty programs may well have increased the number of poor people and that eliminating many of these programs might be a better antipoverty strategy. These conclusions re...

The formal evaluation of social welfare programs has imposed stringent demands upon research methodologies in economics and other social sciences. Often the validity of the performance criteria must be reassessed. We now know, for instance, that simply counting numbers served or dollars spent provides insufficient information. The Institute was closely associated with the development of target ...