United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare

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The United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (also known as HEW) was a cabinet level department of the United States government from 1953 until 1979. In 1979, a separate Department of Education was created from this department, and HEW was renamed as the Department of Health and Human Services.

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• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "United_States_Department_of_Health,_Education_and_Welfare" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Health,_Education_and_Welfare, used under the GNU Free Documentation License