Social programs in the United States are
welfare subsidies designed to aid the needs of the American population. Proposals for federal programs began with
Theodore Roosevelt's
New Nationalism and expanded with
Woodrow Wilson's
New Freedom,
Franklin D. Roosevelt's
New Deal,
John F. Kennedy's
New Frontier, and
Lyndon B. Johnson's
Great Society. Federal and state welfare programs include cash assistance, healthcare and medical provisions, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, education and childcare assistance, and subsidies and assistance for other basic services. Private provisions from employers, either mandated by policy or voluntary, also provide similar social welfare benefits.