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December 11, 2008

welfare

Welfare

welfare (noun) - 1. good health and happiness, 2. money given by the government to help people in need

child welfare
welfare available only for children, the elderly, and the blind

social welfare
a national welfare system
welfare organisations
company welfare benefits
a welfare agency
their welfare application was finally accepted
a welfare clinic
a welfare state
Germany is a generous welfare state
increased taxes are one way of paying for welfare

being her son, she should contribute to his welfare, to his upkeep.

four years ago, trying to get herself and her three children off Welfare, she started a small home repair company

conservatives believe welfare and affirmative action don't work
 this job is your ticket off of public assistance, off of welfare
getting them off of welfare and into jobs
we helped almost a 1000 welfare recipients find jobs

your welfare is foremost in our thoughts
we put the very highest priority upon the safety and welfare of all of our citizens, not just our government personnel, but....

the public welfare is at stake
the foreign ministry is concerned about the welfare of its citizens
he had a deep concern for the welfare of his men and their families

the welfare of a hospital patient
lack of regard for the welfare of a hospital patient


animal welfare
farm animal welfare campaigners
outstanding service to animal welfare
preferred to spend their pocket money on animal welfare classes rather than go to the cinema

community welfare
employee welfare
personal welfare
family welfare
social welfare maximization

the welfare of his customers
welfare recipients
welfare payments
welfare dependency
welfare fraud
anybody can get on welfare in this country

smart enough to get off of welfare

dismantling the welfare state
the decline of the welfare state

general assistance and welfare
opposition to paying tax for welfare

Ms. Bevins, you were smart enough to come off of Welfare, you were smart enough to have established this business, why did you do this?

I mean what attitudes do you get from business about people on welfare?
Have you been able to make any generalized assumptions about people on welfare and their attitudes about work?

Grice is unemployed and needs welfare assistance to support her family.


What we are trying to do is to take welfare reform and getting welfare recipients off of welfare and into jobs and doing that around the country

a commitment to increased social welfare, a high and stable level of employment, and more even distribution of income and wealth through a system of progressive taxation

there are also intangibles that help build the self esteem lost through years of debilitating welfare dependency


Example sentences:

* I cannot recall ever having encountered such a manifest and deplorable lack of regard by management for the welfare of a hospital inpatient.

* She proved to be a remarkably good co-ordinator in uniting the different societies in their drive to improve conditions and by touring the country, set up local Old People's Welfare groups to promote homes, clubs, visiting and other services.

* The welfare of his people is as high a priority as the welfare of his customers.

* In Britain, this meant a commitment to increased social welfare, a high and stable level of employment, and more even distribution of income and wealth through a system of progressive taxation.

* All such measures should be presented as part of a well thought-out programme to recast the welfare state.

* Three welfare organisations in West Cumbria have been given a tremendous boost, thanks to the golfers who took part in last year's Sellafield Pro-Am golf tournament.

* Similarly, the decline of the welfare state means that people are increasingly treated as private citizens or defined by gender, race, religion and class fractions rather than as standard people with standard needs.

* Even as a child growing up in the Fifties, she and her sister, Marlene, preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema.

* The role of the welfare state in masking existing oppressions and reinforcing social inequalities is also addressed.

* Other services are of a secondary-institutional nature: day care and nursery education, family room, toy library, local play group, and welfare rights clinic.

* Even those employed in small firms have to accept the limited rewards and the lower level of company welfare benefits if they are to fill the void left by limited state welfare provision.

* Her initial training was in printmaking and her interest in social welfare in 1891 she moved to Berlin where her husband was a doctor in a poor area of the city combined in her great early cycle of six prints A Weaver's Rebellion (completed 1898).

* The BVA Animal Welfare Foundation has announced that this year's Alice Stanley Jaye Award for Outstanding Services to Animal Welfare has been presented to Mr Peter Roberts, founder and Trustee of Compassion in World Farming.

* Then, if their maximand is not solely social welfare maximization, there is room for constraints to have an influence for the good.

Taxes are not just a way of paying for welfare: they can be a way of promoting welfare too.

*  He had a deep concern for the welfare of his men and their families and in his later years lavished much care on his invalid mother.


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