Welfare | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-25

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare


00:02:06 1 Terminology
00:02:53 2 History
00:06:41 3 Forms
00:07:19 4 Provision and funding
00:07:56 5 Welfare systems
00:08:05 5.1 Australia
00:09:48 5.2 Canada
00:11:23 5.3 Denmark
00:12:18 5.4 France
00:12:52 5.5 Germany
00:15:00 5.6 Italy
00:15:41 5.7 Japan
00:16:19 5.8 Latin America
00:16:28 5.8.1 History
00:19:01 5.8.2 1980s impacts
00:20:05 5.8.3 Major aspects of current social assistance programs
00:21:18 5.9 New Zealand
00:22:43 5.10 Sweden
00:24:18 5.11 United Kingdom
00:25:59 5.12 United States
00:31:24 6 Criticism



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SUMMARY
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Welfare is a type of government support for the citizens of that society.  Welfare may be provided to people of any income level, as with social security (and is then often called a social safety net), but it is usually intended to ensure that the poor can meet their basic human needs such as food and shelter. Welfare attempts to provide poor people with a minimal level of well-being, usually either a free- or a subsidized-supply of certain goods and social services, such as healthcare, education, and vocational training.A welfare state is a political system wherein the State assumes responsibility for the health, education, and welfare of society. The system of social security in a welfare state provides social services, such as universal medical care, unemployment insurance for workers, financial aid, free post-secondary education for students, subsidized public housing, and pensions (sickness, incapacity, old-age), etc. In 1952, with the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention (nr. 102), the International Labour Organization (ILO) formally defined the social contingencies covered by social security.
The first welfare state was Imperial Germany (1871–1918), where the Bismarck government introduced social security in the late 19th century. In the early 20th century, Great Britain introduced social security around 1913, and adopted the welfare state with the National Insurance Act 1946, during the Attlee government (1945–51). In the countries of western Europe, Scandinavia, and Australasia, social welfare is mainly provided by the government out of the national tax revenues, and to a lesser extent by non-government organizations (NGOs), and charities (social and religious).