until the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935 which is what I will discuss next (Pimpare, 2007, pp. 237).
Social Security Act of 1935 The Social Security Act of 1935 is sometimes identified as the birth of the American welfare state (Pimpare, 2007, pp.237). The Social Security Act of 1935 provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and welfare programs (Martin & Weaver, 2005, pp.1). The welfare part of the Social Security Act of 1935 provided programs that included Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) which has been transformed into the current program of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) (Martin & Weaver, 2005, pp.2). Along with aid for families the original program also provided support for means-tested
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According to Faherty (2006), a composite of historical records from the first three centuries reveal that the Christian social welfare system provided an array of what we would call today both cash and in-kind goods and services (pp.116). Faith based social services started out as charity services in which the resources should be given generously but cautiously to the unworthy poor (McMillin, 2011, pp.485). This changed when the church and start started supporting each other and there was a three part solution which included autonomy for private agencies, cooperation among agencies, and both public and private, and financial support from the government for agencies that contributed to the public interest (McMillin, 2011, pp.485). This all started in the 1960s when church sponsored human services started to receive increased funding from the state (McMillin, 2011, pp.485). All of this happened for nearly half a century before there was a rise of government funding that drew human services and faith based groups closer together (McMillin, 2011, pp.487). Overall faith-based agencies are at times run in ways that are similar to the government agencies today but still have the option to use their church building to provide the services and express their current beliefs to those seeking those services (McMillin, 2011, pp. 488). The faith based agencies are also at times nonprofit agencies which have a history providing human services which is what I will discuss