Apr 14, 2016 at 8:12 AM. 1  Atmasphere, a brand new yoga and fitness lifestyle concept launching in Atlanta, will open the doors to its first-ever studio in the Buckhead community on Friday, April 15! Located at 3097 Piedmont Road N.E. in a two-story, 10,000 square-foot...
Otto von Bismarck. Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Germany, created the modern welfare state by building on a tradition of welfare programs in Prussia and Saxony that began as early as in the 1840s, and by winning the support of business.
In 1992, candidate Bill Clinton, a Democrat, ran for president promising to end welfare as we know it.. In 1996, a Republican Congress passed and President Clinton signed a reform law that returned most control of welfare back to the states, thus ending 61 years of federal responsibility. National Welfare System. The emphasis during the first two years of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was to provide work relief for the millions of unemployed Americans. Federal money flowed to the states to pay for public works projects, which employed the jobless.