Sentence examples for curtail welfare from inspiring English sources

The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to cut almost 500,000 jobs and to curtail welfare spending to bring the public finances into line.

Although the administration's plan to further curtail welfare dependency should be applauded ("Bush Urges Work and Marriage Programs in Welfare Plan," news article, Feb. 27), it continues to overlook the role that financial independence can play in promoting family values.

For "American Dream," DeParle paints an intimate group portrait of Angie Jobe, Jewell Reed, Opal Caples and their combined 10 children as they move from Chicago to Milwaukee in search of better welfare benefits, only to become some of the first subjects of Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson's experiment to curtail welfare.

LONDON — The British government on Wednesday unveiled the country's steepest public spending cuts in more than 60 years, reducing costs in government departments by an average of 19 percent, sharply curtailing welfare benefits, raising the retirement age to 66 by 2020 and eliminating hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs in an effort to bring down the bloated budget deficit.

That is because it allows us to reduce energy consumption without curtailing social welfare.

Many approaches and tools have been utilized throughout the globe by public and private sector organizations to curtail the deprivations and enhance welfare of the poor.

Unlike the 1994 Contract with America, which in substance was not nearly as ideological as people thought, and unlike Bush's compassionate conservatism, which was sold as a rejection of anti-government philosophy, the Roadmap was a comprehensive plan to reduce the welfare state and radically curtail the government's role in protecting citizens from life's misfortunes.

You not only applaud the issuance of new proposed regulations intended to curtail the political activity of tax-exempt social welfare organizations, but embolden the I.R.S. to make them stronger.

Bloomberg administration officials have also sued over a law that would allow welfare recipients to substitute education and training for work requirements, arguing that it would curtail the mayor's authority to oversee the city's welfare system.

Two decades later, that has perhaps proven the single most important factor in determining the success of the reforms as some state legislatures plunder welfare grants to fund other programmes or severely curtail them out of ideological hostility.

Representative Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat of Maryland, said that other provisions of the Republican bill would curtail state flexibility and reduce access to education and training for welfare recipients.