What is the impact of social welfare and industrial policy initiatives on organizations and the wider community?

Answer 1

Social Welfare (used to help people), industries, organizations, and communities are all part of the larger social structure of society. Incidents or events in one of these will always affect the other three--- positively or negatively (or perhaps neutrally, e.g. no effect). For example, if industry decided they will only hire people with a B.A., it would immediately place an undue burden on Social Welfare and on Communities at large, while private organizations would try to step in to help offset the burden. As an example, the US has a hunger problem. Children do not get enough to eat. Public Welfare, a social welfare program, gives Food Stamps to the poor, but also cut monthly benefits. Working parents cannot make enough to provide food, housing, utilities. So Industries and Private organizations increasingly run food drives to stock food pantries run in communities for people who need food. However, if industries paid a reasonable wage, and hired full time instead of part time, perhaps more people could afford to buy nutritious food. Yet, the majority of politicians and the population still believe Welfare is a "hand out"---so they want people to receive LESS Welfare and Food Stamps. Taxpayers are taxed to death paying for "social" and "community" issues (roads, schools, property) plus to fund State programs, like Welfare. In response to growing community needs, Organizations try to become advocates for what people need, speaking on the news, lobbying public officials, etc. So the impact---a constant roller coaster where big parts of society are always "down side" while others are mostly on the up side.