Key Social Safety Net Laws

by Alex Acks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502655330
• ISBN13: 9781502655332
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12