Social Polices 1234

Social Policies are concerned with various issues, but for the benefit of this essay I shall be concentrating on the issue of unemployment. In order to understand the concept of market liberalism with regards to unemployment it is important to first take into consideration the "social reformist" approach to unemployment in order to consider the strengths and weaknesses of market liberalism. As individuals, others often initially enquire us as to what we do for a …

…if state intervention were reduced to a minimum, jobs would be created. The market liberalism approached suggested that individualism was the key to success and offered the unemployed incentives such as Youth Training Schemes, Restart Schemes and Community Programme Schemes. However, with regards to the evidence that is presented within this essay, this approach seems to have only prolonged the increase of unemployment, rather than attempted to take into consideration other issues that surround unemployment.