Beveridge Report Of 1942: Implementing Social Welfare

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The support for social welfare programs in Britain was explicitly written down in the Beveridge Report of 1942. Many believe that this marked the start of support for these social programs, but the support and call for social welfare programs stated many years before the Beveridge Report of 1942. This report was done by Willian Beveridge, a liberal, who was appointed to create it by the conservative Winston Churchill. After this report was published the vast majority of British citizens supported it and thought is should be implemented immediately. The Beveridge Report created a plan for implementing social welfare and it created three basic ground rules. The first rule was that social services (unemployment, healthcare, pensions) should
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