Sentence examples for benefit vote from inspiring English sources

If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill.

3. Prescription Benefit: Vote on a Republican plan that would offer prescription drug benefits to 39 million elderly and disabled people on Medicare.

You could create as many "persons" as you liked, then use them to claim benefits, vote, register businesses, or apply for a passport, then kill them off if they got into trouble.

1. Prescription Drug Benefits: Vote on a plan to limit the amount of money that elderly people would have to spend on medicines by providing substantial assistance to many Medicare beneficiaries with low incomes or very high drug expenses.

In July, Taj workers, having lost many of their benefits, voted to authorize a strike.

(Reid, who has never been as liberal on social or military issues as he is on the provision of government benefits, voted for the war).

Unfortunately, out of ignorance or indifference to the fate of others, I can see the elderly who now receive Social Security benefits voting in favor of cuts for future beneficiaries, ostensibly to protect their own benefits.

There is a clear correlation between employment and reduced recidivism, and creating blanket barriers to employment serves only to further marginalize a large segment of our population that already faces compounding barriers to becoming honest, taxpaying and law-abiding citizens — including criminal record-based barriers to housing, public benefits, voting and education.

When politicians do their sums about other universal benefits, votes as well as costs will be part of the calculations.

Since our employees are state employees, we are held to increases in their pay and benefits voted by our state legislature.

People of color are classified as "criminals," permanently trapping them in a second-class status and allowing a whole range of legal discrimination (in employment, housing, education, public benefits, voting rights, jury duty and so forth).