The Era of Federal Social Services

The Era of Federal Social Services

 

1. Describe the purpose of the G.I. Bill

2. Identify Five key achievements of The Civil Rights Movement and their implication for social justice, human rights, dignity and self-determination. Use the relevant NASW code of ethics to justify your response.

3. (A) Identify four key social welfare policy provisions/enactments during the Great Society and

(B) discuss their significance to the needy and the vulnerable especially during that period, that extend to today.

ONLY USE THIS BOOK TO REFERENCE: Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: The Reluctant Welfare State
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The age of social federalism was the period after the Second World War that saw reforms being taken by the U.S. Government to make sure that they recovered from it. It was a time when they introduced the GI bill, which provided educational and several other benefits to the people that had served the country during the war. It served the purpose of even giving unemployment benefits to the people that had survived the world war.

Even with the use of this bill, many of the African Americans did not benefit from it. This was because they were discriminated against by the whites, even though they equally participated in the war. This is where the civil…

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