Sentence examples for get a welfare from inspiring English sources

Add to this the bewildering complexity of an array of different benefits, and you get a welfare system that is not working.In this section Hanging in there My enemy's enemy Thanks, but no thanks Bzzzt, it's back A toxic mix Maligned, or misaligned?

You don't meet him at the door and say, 'Go be thou filled,' or 'Wait for a few weeks, and you'll get a welfare check.' You sit him down and feed him.

"Sometimes I think everyone here either gets a welfare check or a farm subsidy".

We only got a welfare state because of two world wars.

But the Stormont House Agreement explicitly ties the devolution of corporation tax to getting a welfare bill through Stormont.

If this is right then it is obvious that a situation in which someone who deserves a welfare level of 50 and gets a welfare level of 50 is just as good, from the perspective of desert, as a situation in which someone who deserves a welfare level of 200 gets a welfare level of 200.

"The question I want to ask, if we are interested in social justice, and we want to honor work instead of getting a welfare check, then wouldn't a more efficient way to help people in poverty be to increase the earned-income tax credit rather than do what we always do here, which is come up with a big idea and send the bill to somebody else?

As should be blindingly obvious to anyone on the left, you don't get a Nordic welfare state with Irish levels of taxation.

"Every month, I get a paper from Welfare saying how much they just paid for me and my two kids to stay in our one room in this shelter, and I can tell you the exact amount," Diana said.

The Vikings, like many teams, is holding up the specter of moving the franchise to Los Angeles if they don't get a nine-figure welfare check.

After the divorce was finalized in 1983, Ms. Bifulco worked three jobs and put herself through college, "getting A's," she said, and got off welfare.