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Research done at the University of Pennsylvania found that white families, on average, have access to more help and more support from the child
welfare
system.
In the two years I spent on the front lines of child welfare, I made high-stakes decisions.
Now, as social work faculty at Florida State University, I lead an institute that curates the most innovative and effective child
welfare
research.
"Child
welfare
is very subjective, because it's an emotional field.
I know we can transform child
welfare.
Let's imagine a child
welfare
system that focuses on partnering with parents, empowering families, and no longer see poverty as failure.
These caterpillars didn't do anything for their own
welfare.
Many Whitopians feel pushed by illegals, social
welfare
abuse, minorities, density, crowded schools.
But today, our relationships are all but written off by our politics, our social policies, our
welfare
institutions.
And, you know, it's no accident that those who run and work in the institutions that are supposed to support Ella and her family don't talk about relationships, because relationships are expressly designed out of a
welfare
model that was drawn up in Britain and exported around the world.
The contemporaries of William Beveridge, who was the architect of the first
welfare
state and the author of the Beveridge Report, had little faith in what they called the average sensual or emotional man.
People queued in the rain on a November night to get hold of a copy, and it was read across the country, across the colonies, across Europe, across the United States of America, and it had this huge impact on the way that
welfare
states were designed around the globe.
In Britain, as in most places in the world, our
welfare
states were primarily designed to get people into work, to educate them for this, and to keep them healthy.
But today, we need to bring people and their communities back into the heart of the way we design new systems and new services, in an approach that I call "Relational Welfare."
Now, American soldiers, American veterans are coming back to a country that is so bitterly divided that the two political parties are literally accusing each other of treason, of being an enemy of the state, of trying to undermine the security and the
welfare
of their own country.
A lot of people, and this includes everybody from philosophers and economists to ordinary people believe that human nature is fundamentally selfish, that we're only ever really motivated by our own
welfare.
We were on welfare, sometimes homeless, many times hungry.
And basically, the more people feel that they are the same, the more they trust each other, the more they can have a redistributionist
welfare
state.
And that leads to a progressive
welfare
state, a set of progressive left-leaning values, which says, "Drawbridge down!
That's going to cut social capital, it makes it hard to have a
welfare
state and they might end up, as we have in America, with a racially divided, visibly racially divided, society.
And if you value having a generous
welfare
state, you've got to emphasize that we're all the same.
For me, that agenda is Reaganism on macroeconomic policy, Sweden on
welfare
policy and cuts across right and left.
Now, contrast that to the first canon of engineering, which, in my opinion, should be the first law of humanity: "To hold paramount the health, safety and
welfare
of the public," above all else.
But eventually, if you debate long enough, you will switch sides, you'll argue for and against the expansion of the
welfare
state.
In 1995, Betty Hart and Todd Risley published a study that found that working class families and those being served by
welfare
experience what we now refer to as the "30 million word gap."
He was leading a
welfare
organization, and I would go with him to the social and political gatherings to listen and talk to the local men about our social and economic problems.
He needs someone to help him go down to the
welfare
office and make an application.
But when I got to the
welfare
office, they would not let me make an application for this gentleman.
And he said to me, very sternly, "You go right back down to that
welfare
office, and you demand to see a supervisor.
I went down to the
welfare
office and I demanded to see the supervisor.
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