SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unemployment Benefits, Housing Cooperative, Stimulant

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 302
• Professor: Rose Ann Torres

Document Summary

Lecture 5: constructing a system of social security in canada. Notion (and language) of a (cid:858)welfa(cid:396)e tate(cid:859) came into being. Government responsibility for range of services, rights, benefits and duties of citizens. Government role to finance, organize, and deliver health care, education, income support and social services. Also, role of managing the economy and maintaining high and stable levels of employment and come. The depression and the wii (how we encountered) Precariousness of the canadian system of social welfare. Attempts at housing acts (1935; 1937): loan/economic stimulation. The act: 1940, contributions (42% of the workforce) Government and private market needed to ensure employment and economic security. The government only follow the keynes support temporarily. Fi(cid:448)e (cid:858)g(cid:396)a(cid:374)ts(cid:859) faci(cid:374)g (cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374) society: (cid:449)a(cid:374)t, disease, s(cid:395)ualo(cid:396), idle(cid:374)ess, ig(cid:374)o(cid:396)a(cid:374)ce. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals pay a (cid:449)eekly (cid:858)p(cid:396)e(cid:373)iu(cid:373)(cid:859) a(cid:374)d (cid:271)e(cid:374)efits paid to si(cid:272)k, disa(cid:271)led, (cid:396)eti(cid:396)ed, unemployed or widowed also maternity and funeral benefits. Federal-provincial relations review all social programs. Federal most of taxation provincial most expenditures of social services.