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The idea that the government should intervene to lift people up from poverty and starvation is relatively new in America, where until the early twentieth century the misery of workhouses and poorhouses were all some people could count on. Since the Great Depression and the beginning of Social Security, the social safety net has expanded to cover more people and try to help them with more problems including poverty, starvation, homelessness, and lack of health care. With this book, readers will analyze difficult queries; Whom does the safety net catch? Whom should it catch? Is it enough, or is it too much? These are questions being hotly debated in the government at all levels now, and the answers will decide the future of millions of people in America.

One in ten Americans have filed bankruptcy at some point during their adult lives. Contrary to the pronouncements of some politicians, these filings do not reflect a series of personal failures and should not be understood as failures of character. Indeed, most of the people who file bankruptcy struggle for years to pay their debts before turning to bankruptcy law and courts for help. And most of the people who file say that they felt shame upon filing. Instead, the bankruptcy filings of millions and millions of people reflect systematic policy choices over the past forty years that have left individuals to deal with life's risks by themselves, without a safety net. In this post, I explain what we can learn about the social and economic problems that plague our society by paying greater attention to the people who file bankruptcy, and why, absent broader changes, we can expect consumer bankruptcy to remain integral to helping people survive in a society marked by racial, ethnic, and gender inequality and with increasing disparities in income and wealth.

Recent years have seen a marked shift away from single-minded emphasis on economic growth toward the development of a 'harmonious society.' Progress in improving China's social security system probably will be much quicker over the next 20 years than in the previous 20, but reform will still be piecemeal.

Die Autorin skizziert die generellen Probleme bei der Einführung eines effizienten Sozialversicherungssystems in Rußland vor dem Hintergrund der Wirtschaftskrise und stellt die Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Renten, Lohnfortzahlung, Arbeitslosenunterstützung, Gesundheitsfürsorge und Sozialhilfe jeweils detailliert dar. Es besteht die Gefahr, daß der Staat sich - nicht zuletzt aufgrund fehlender finanzieller Ressourcen - immer stärker aus seiner bisherigen Verantwortung für den Bereich der sozialen Sicherheit zurückzieht, die Bevölkerung angesichts der galoppierenden Inflation aber gezwungen sein wird, immer höhere Beiträge für ständig sinkende Leistungen in diesem Bereich zu zahlen. (BIOst-Srt)

Die Einführung eines sozialen Netzes in Polen impliziert eine einschneidende Absage an die patriarchalische Tradition des kommunistischen Systems und verfolgt das Ziel, den Bürgern in der Übergangsphase zum kapitalistischen System einen sozialen Minimalschutz zu gewähren, ohne das ökonomische Wachstum zu gefährden. Dargestellt werden der Aufbau des Sozialversicherungssystems, der Arbeitslosenunterstützung, der Sozialhilfe und der Gesundheitsfürsorge. Insgesamt bietet Polen den ökonomisch rückständigen Nachbarstaaten bereits ein Vorbild beim Aufbau einer Wohlfahrtspolitik während der ökonomischen Transformationsperiode. (BIOst-Srt)

Social safety nets (SSNt) is a form of government involvement in providing assistance to need a life of the poor and vulnerable for increasing the quality of life people. This study is an introduction that discusses the concept and program of SSNt among fishermen in South Sulawesi Province. How SSNt interests and challenges in improving people's quality of life.

In the United States, Medicaid is the primary social safety net that provides health care for the poor and other vulnerable populations. Interest group theory and federalism, state level sovereignty, are used to create a theoretical model that proposes factors, other than increasing health care cost, as growth determinants of Medicaid expenditure and enrollments. For over three decades driven by federalism state-level discretionary Medicaid waiver programs have been creating new and unsustainable entitlements. The role of Medicaid waivers is poorly understood and in need of scholarly attention. Due to a lack of federal oversight and other social and political factors, some of which will be discussed in this paper, it appears that discretionary Medicaid waiver programs put in place as a solution are contributing to the overall structural issues of Medicaid. The paper concludes with suggestions on needed research and some potential policy recommendations.