The causes of the welfare explosion of the sixties.

Running head : WELFARE EXPLOSION IN THE SIXTIES

Causes of Welfare Explosion in the Sixties

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Causes of Welfare Explosion in the Sixties

Introduction

In their investigations into welfare growth in American cities in the late 1960s , some analysts have rejected the notion that the expansion of welfare during this time operated largely as a form of social control so as to reinvent political and social stability . It can be assumed that the welfare explosion in the late 1960s

was in part the result of a two-step process in which civil disorder forced the state to enact the necessary legislation relating to welfare policy which in turn were most effectively implemented by those states most of which were affected by riots . Investigation of the relative state growth of the welfare was done through comparison of the number of families receiving aid to families with dependent children

Welfare Explosion and the State

It is only a great commitment to national action . friendly extensive and sustained , strengthened by the zeal and resources of the most powerful nation in the world (that ) can shape a future that is compatible with the historic ideals of American society (Trattner 2004 . This was the conclusion of the Kerner Commission which was convened by President Lyndon B . Johnson to examine the causes of riots that affected more than 150 American cities in 1967 (Trattner , 2004

Since then , everything has changed . At present , the Kerner Commission acts as the...