Sentence examples for extended welfare from inspiring English sources

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.

Mr Rojas says the welfare state is undergoing significant reform as public-private partnerships are tried out: "Sweden had the most extended welfare state on earth, it was the role model for Nordic countries.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A "lack of moderation discernible on all fronts" is how Dwight D. Eisenhower assessed Sweden in 1960, seeing Scandinavia in general as a cautionary tale about extended social welfare.

The government says it has built 3.7m houses in the past two decades, extended social welfare grants to 16 million people, doubled the number attending university and nurtured a new black middle class.