Sentence examples for extend welfare from inspiring English sources

Strong economic growth since then has helped to create jobs, raise wages and allow the government to extend welfare programs.

It said it would extend welfare grants to older children, provide free education to more students, introduce a national health insurance system and reach more of the more than five million South Africans infected with H.I.V. with care and drug treatment.

Some of them have begun to wonder whether Mr Zuma is not presiding over a lurch to the right, despite his promises to tackle poverty and extend welfare.The president has roundly condemned recent violence by striking workers and protesters, telling the police to fire tear-gas and rubber bullets at them.

Morales' center-left opponent Torres, 60, has vowed to extend welfare programs that were once a hallmark of the presidency of Alvaro Colom, when she was first lady.

The state had given Mr Nader, who is now running as an independent, one of his highest levels of support.A bill to extend welfare-reform provisions, enacted by the Clinton administration, was stalled in the Senate.

Mr. Tiger says that public policy has encouraged women's independence from men by extending welfare benefits to single mothers, awarding mothers custody of children in divorce cases and even denying fathers visiting rights.

If the state's rules for extending welfare benefits had not been changed, there was a strong possibility that the families would stay on welfare beyond five years, and the cost of their benefits might have to be met by the state.

The Agreement acknowledged the right of employees to associate in free trade unions, obliged the government to take steps to eliminate censorship, abolished weekend work, increased the minimum wage, improved and extended welfare and pensions, and increased autonomy of industrial enterprises, where a meaningful role was to be played by workers' self-management councils.

The welfare provisions would extend the welfare law through March 31 to give lawmakers time to pass legislation renewing it.

It is estimated some 16,000 on-reserve children were removed from their homes by Ontario's child welfare services between 1965, when the federal government signed an agreement with the province to extend its welfare programs to reserves and 1984, when the provincial government incorporated protections regarding cultural identity into law.

On this, the Tories are perversely proposing to extend the welfare state to the wealthy.