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It created a class of welfare recipients, those that have lived off of welfare have children and grandchildren who also enter that life and never escape to become productive members of society
The Democrats started the American welfare system, under President Franklin Roosevelt.
One of the biggest changes was to limit the amount of benefit any single person could receive from welfare. First, a person must be actively seeking work while receiving welfare. Second, a person can only receive welfare benefits for five years, regardless of income status.
In Britain the Beveridge Report in the 1940s was very influential in the Labour post war government of Clement Attlee. It established the 'Welfare State'.
They didn’t provide for “public welfare.” This is a modern concept and for thousands of years people did the best they could to live.