The American welfare state has evolved in historical stages.

    Key policies developed out of the Colonial Period, Gilded Age, The Progressive Era, The Great Depression, The Great Society, and the Conservatism Counterrevolutions. In a three-four page double spaced paper: state and compare the enactments of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society reforms and President Nixon's domestic reforms. identify the significant ways each of these Presidents' reforms change the engagement of human service professionals in their work with vulnerable populations