Public welfare
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Scope of this subject
Here are entered works on tax-supported welfare activities. Works on privately supported welfare activities are entered under [Charities.] Works on the methods employed in social work, public or private, are entered under [Social service.] Works that discuss collectively the various policies, programs, services, and facilities to meet basic human needs relating to the quality of life, such as education, health, welfare, etc. are entered under [Human services.]
Scope note supplied by the Library of Congress authority record.
Names and connections
Benevolent institutions; Poor relief; Public assistance; Public charities; Public relief; Public welfare reform; Public welfare--Government policy; Relief (Aid); Social welfare; Welfare (Public assistance); Welfare reform
- Broader: Social service
- Broader: Human services
- Narrower: Aid to families with dependent children programs
- Narrower: Almshouses
- Narrower: Asylums
- Narrower: Blind--Institutional care
- Narrower: Child welfare
- Narrower: Classification--Books--Public welfare
- Narrower: Domicile in public welfare
- Narrower: Family policy
- Narrower: Food relief
- Narrower: Fresh-air charity
- Narrower: Income maintenance programs
- Narrower: Institutional care
- Narrower: International relief
- Narrower: Legal assistance to the poor
- Narrower: Libraries--Special collections--Public welfare
- Narrower: Military social work
- Narrower: National service
- Narrower: Racism in public welfare
- Narrower: Rent subsidies
- Narrower: Social medicine
- Narrower: Social service, Rural
- Narrower: Supplemental security income program
- Narrower: Transients, Relief of
- Narrower: Welfare fraud
- Narrower: Welfare state
- Narrower: Women in charitable work
- Narrower: Women--Institutional care
- Narrower: Young women--Charities, protection, etc.
Up to 40 narrower headings are shown. Full Library of Congress authority record
Local answer status
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Numeric address and provenance
Morton address: 9550094392027644420 · morton4x16-v1
Coordinates: (0, 20, 19105, 47104). The address interleaves categorical identifier bits. Nearby addresses are not guaranteed to describe semantically similar subjects.
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