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==History==

==History==

The first welfare program in the United States was established in 1921 by the passage of the [[Sheppard–Towner Act]], which saw its repeal in 1929.

The first welfare program in the United States was established in 1921 by the passage of the [[Sheppard–Towner Act]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RzEDBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA52 The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy]</ref> which saw its repeal in 1929.

Prior to the proliferation of government-controlled welfare programs, private charitable agencies reached all corners of the country.  One historian notes that "So rapidly did private agencies multiply that before long America's larger cities had what to many people was an embarrassing number of them."<ref name="Trattner">[https://books.google.com/books?id=r0PZdo5fXfgC&pg=PA91 From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition: A History of Social Welfare in America]</ref><ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/objectivist/2011/11/18/america-before-the-entitlement-state/#32c6f52c3d44 America Before The Entitlement State]</ref>

Prior to the proliferation of government-controlled welfare programs, private charitable agencies reached all corners of the country.  One historian notes that "So rapidly did private agencies multiply that before long America's larger cities had what to many people was an embarrassing number of them."<ref name="Trattner">[https://books.google.com/books?id=r0PZdo5fXfgC&pg=PA91 From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition: A History of Social Welfare in America]</ref><ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/objectivist/2011/11/18/america-before-the-entitlement-state/#32c6f52c3d44 America Before The Entitlement State]</ref>