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Federal programs that could termed welfare were greatly expanded under Franklin Roosevelt's administration. Many states, counties and cities had facilities such as orphanages, poor farms , old folks' homes. homes for widows of veterans and soup kitchens in place for many years before the federal government got into the act.

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