Sentence examples for depending on welfare from inspiring English sources

Conversely, neither passing a test nor being financially self-sufficient (i.e., not depending on welfare benefits) are prerequisites for Norwegian citizenship (as in Denmark).

As the country gets through this recessionary period, and prepares people for jobs relevant to current and emerging markets, many unemployed people are depending on welfare and other critical government services to support themselves and their families.

While sponsors of the legislation said it would get people to work instead of depending on welfare, it simply ended the federal assurance of help to needy families with children and put a limit of five years on how long a family could get help.

He described growing up "dirt poor" in a small town in Northern California where joining the military was your sole ticket out; where the people in his family who depended on welfare stayed where they were and the ones who worked their fingers to the bone managed to make a better life for themselves.

I don't want to depend on welfare money".

"I always felt sorry for anyone who had to depend on welfare".

But in recent years many farmers have declared bankruptcy, forcing ever more rural blacks to depend on welfare.

Most of their families depend on welfare, they often encounter discrimination and they are sometimes hobbled by language difficulties, all as they confront the travails of adolescence.

She said that she would like to work so she would not have to depend on welfare, but that she had never really learned to read.

However, true: the proportion of people who depend on welfare for the majority of their income has increased (although it was also increasing under Bush).

The daughter of a disabled railroad worker, Dr. Peters and her often homeless family moved nearly a dozen times before she graduated from high school, and as a young single mother in the early 1970's she had depended on welfare.