Sentence examples for foundation for welfare from inspiring English sources

But it was puritan Christianity in a different form which encouraged a loathing of gambling and of drunkenness and inspired the cult of probity, which - more than Marx - laid the foundation for welfare states where no one needed a miracle.

This stronger narrative about a nation's wealth that is created by all is essential, not only for creating public-private 'innovation systems', but also for building a stronger foundation for the welfare state – something that has historically increased the pool of possible innovators precisely because it increases education and training opportunities for all.

"Some people even say that the current downfall of Nokia is the best thing that's happened to this country because it's challenged us to come up with new ways to have a foundation for our welfare".

The huge outpouring of philanthropy in the 18th and 19th centuries laid many of the foundations for the welfare state.

Many were disguised as "foundations" for the welfare of lower ranks but were really vehicles for the chiefs' money-laundering and other capers.

This is not New York or Berlin, but Herbert Morrison's London of the 1930s - a place where the combination of Conservative national government and innovative local Labour leadership started to lay down the foundations for the welfare state.

When the Beveridge Report, which laid the foundations for the welfare state, was published in 1942, it sold a third of a million copies, dowdy official report though it might have been.

From the emergency measures of the New Deal, which laid the foundation for the modern welfare state, to the vast ambitions of the Great Society, the government provided support for the aged, healthcare for the poor, job security for workers, good schools for the nation's young people and invested in science and infrastructure projects that created new economic opportunities.

Even if the foundation for the Finnish welfare state was set right after World War II, Finland did not implement most of the universal 'Nordic' policies until the 1960s and 1970s, decades after Sweden and Denmark.

Arguments relate for example to the allocation of collective resources, the foundations of welfare economics, as well as systematic differences between public and patient values.

The intellectual foundations of welfare reform were prepared by Cardiff University's Unum Centre, now renamed the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research.