Asset Based Social Welfare Practice

The U.S. Federal Government implemented a public land granted policy in 1862. In the process of implementation, it covers at least the following three aspects: land granted education policy, land granted road-building policy and land granted immigration policy. The public land granted policy plays a very important role in promoting the development and further development of western areas in the United States. Meanwhile, it is a social policy, which was used by the United States Federal Government to win the civil war, make up for the trauma of war and promote social integration. The property of social welfare in the public land granted policy tend to illustrate this point more specifically. Firstly, the federal government is the subject of liability of the public land granted policy. Secondly, The distribution method of the public land is to distribute all people by free. As for the recipients of public land, they volunteer to join but not be ordered. Therefore, from the perspective of social policy, the federal government's public land granted policy is a kind of social welfare policy with public land distribution as carrier. In other words, the public land granted policy implemented by the federal government is public land welfare distribution for all people. Public land granted policy have a deep influence on American society. On one hand, the implementation of the public land granted policy can be considered as indirect interference in the social and economic life by the form of financial subsidies for public land. On the other hand, because of land value increment, the public land welfare is the process of the construction of land asset for its recipients. At the same time, the public land welfare is a prototype of assets welfare, and is also one of the early practice of developmental welfare in American history.