Social Welfare Legislation of 1945

State legislatures meeting in 1945 were generally postwar conscious in their consideration of new social legislation. During the year and particularly in the spring months, fortysix state legislative bodies were in session, and forty-three of these will not meet again in regular session before 1947. It might properly be considered, therefore, that the 1945 crop of welfare laws represents the states' ideas of the legislative provisions needed for the rapidly approaching social problems of the reconversion period. During the past year a taxpayers' organization had interested itself in inquiring into the degree and nature of postwar welfare planning, and it reported that most state welfare departments were confining their planning activities to a streamlining of existing programs. An inference was drawn as the result of