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a) Identify two major pieces of social work legislation that was passed between the New Deal Era and the War on Poverty then identify the strengths and weaknesses of the legislation.

In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) introduced the New Deal, a social and economic program of recovery using the government as an instrument of change, an approach familiar to many Europeans for more than a generation. The New Deal ended laissez-faire capitalism and introduced the regulation of business activities, banking reform, and the ability of labor to organize and apply collective bargaining in its pursuit of fair wages and working conditions through passage of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Glicken, 2010). Following this, the next important evolution in social work legislation can in 1952 when the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and the establishment of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) which was formalized...
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