The rightwing "teabagger" lobby, screaming for a shrunken government and diminished welfare system, is one (albeit disconcerting) grassroots embodiment of the kind of movement that can form quickly and spread its ideas effectively.
Motivation tests have been used to assess the strength of an animals drive to obtain specific resources and, indirectly to gain insight into the animal's welfare state as it is likely that chronic high motivation for unobtainable resources leads to diminished welfare.
We will work harder and for longer, in the midst of a diminishing welfare state, while having our incomes siphoned off to pay for the profits of large consortiums.
One principle that follows from a recognition of this is that infractions of personal liberty can be justified when they improve the welfare of individuals on the whole, even when they on occasion diminish the welfare and freedoms of particular people.
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Finding places to rehouse victims of domestic abuse is becoming increasingly difficult as the social housing stock diminishes and welfare reforms take hold.
Various scholars have shown that this dynamic, and its pernicious effects on immigrants, is diminished in more universalistic welfare states (Van der Waal, De Koster & Van Oorschot, 2013; Larsen, 2006; Swank & Betz, 2003; Van Oorschot, 2000; Kumlin & Rothstein 2010; Rothstein 2015).
The individual will have no just complaint even if her utility or welfare is diminished by a decrease in what remains in common or a decrease in what remains available for her initial acquisition as long as she is duly compensated in terms of utility or welfare by other effects of the acquisitive actions of others.
The danger signals were obvious: slowing birth rate, diminishing productivity, spiralling welfare costs, uncontrolled immigration.
Her emphasis on "concrete and current" (roads and electricity) development, in tune with the structural adjustment programmes enforced by the US at the expense of social welfare and jobs, diminished her popularity.
All that follows from B's having that right is that A may not inflict T on B unless A also duly compensates B.[12] All that follows is that B has a claim against A that A's infliction of T on B not leave B's utility or welfare on net diminished.
