Abstract
In this short dissertation it is impossible to elucidate in detail the welfare systems or states of Canada, Germany, Poland, France, Sweden, Austria and United States and compare and contrast them all. Thus the three topics of health care, education, and unemployment benefits will be the focus of the individual welfare state analyses. Each investigation will explain in detail how each country addresses each of these three matters in their own way. In this way we will also be able to compare and classify each of these welfare systems using a classification system that we have devised. The overall theory of this system is that there is only one prime and common dominator among these six welfare systems. This factor is that of funding and the type of funding. Primarily this system focuses on where this funding originates from, whether it be from public taxation, private wealth or some combination of the two there of (mix). Therefore our classification system is labeled the FUGCAPS method (France, United States, Germany, Canada, America, Poland and Sweden).
