Welfare spending
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Welfare spending is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare
Distributing alms to the poor, abbey of Port-Royal des Champs c. 1710
Anarchist protest against welfare cuts and austerity, Slovenia 2012
An office of the Social Insurance Institution (KELA) in Seinäjoki, Finland
President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, 14 August 1935.
Cura annonae
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In Imperial Rome, cura annonae was the logistics system which procured and distributed grain for the cities of Rome and, after its foundation, Constantinople. The city of Rome imported all the grain c
Welfare spending
…of living is asserted in Articles 22 and 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the Roman Empire, the first emperor Augustus provided the Cura Annonae or grain dole for citizens who could not afford to buy food every month. Social welfare was enlarged by the Emperor Trajan. Trajan's program brought…
Neronian coin; the reverse shows the earliest known depiction of Annona, personification of the grain supply, standing before enthroned grain goddess Ceres, whose temple was the site of the grain-dole
A bread stall, from a Pompeiian wall painting
A model of a small Roman grain ship. Large ones had three masts.
A mill and bakery complex at Pompeii