New Deal
This New Deal program gave unemployed Americans jobs building roads, parks, and public buildings.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Advocating for the welfare state, in a 1934 message to congress, this person called for "some safeguards against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours"
Who is President Roosevelt
The rank and file movement developed in response to this.
What is the Great Depression
This was required in local relief administration and helped bridge the gap between social workers and public welfare
What is at least one experienced social worker
This New Deal law created retirement pensions and unemployment insurance in 1935.
What is the Social Security Act.
This social worker was instrumental in forming and implementing emergency relief welfare programs. They were appointed as executive director to T.E.R.A and the head of F.E.R.A by FDR
Who is Harry Hopkins
Name one of the main issues that happened within the 1930s.
Unemployment, widespread hunger, lack of housing
Some radical social workers were unhappy with these policies in the New Deal, which included racism.
What is Social Security?
This agency insured bank deposits to restore public confidence in banks.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
In 1934, only this state had enacted unemployment insurance
What is Wisconsin
The leaders of the rank and file movement were associated with this popular political party.
What is the Communist Party
Social workers in this group were concerned with issues of public welfare
What is the American Public Welfare Association?
This New Deal program hired young men to work on conservation and environmental projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
As the "dominance of private charity over public welfare came to an end" the government took on responsibility for the welfare of its people, introducing this idea into national policy
What is Entitlement or the Welfare State
The rank and file movement lead to attacks on social work because of this.
What is the questioning of the professionalism of social work.
Social workers helped create these policies after concern about the repression of women's economic rights
What is minimum wage laws and work hour regulations for women?