POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Decommodification, Social Gospel, Unemployment Benefits
12 Apr 2014
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Key terms: welfare state, history of the canadian welfare state, liberal welfare state. The welfare state: government expenditures to ensure some minimum standard of living/protection from hardships resulting from unemployment, sickness, and old age. Income transfers: for example, employment insurance, low income assistance and pension. Social care services: healthcare, long term care for the elderly, childcare. Tax expenditures: money the state doesn"t get tax exemptions on. A person can maintain a livelihood with reliance on the market. For example, if you"re really sick, there will be a program that will allow you not to have to go to work to survive. Degree to which a household"s welfare and caring responsibilities are relaxed. In comparison to european countries, canada is a welfare lagger. For a longtime, the role of the state was simply regulation, and it was the role of the church to deal with harity and not the state.
