This is significant, since the issue of "welfare tourism" was not about granting welfare benefits per se.
Stretch the analogy and the developed world granted high welfare benefits when it dominated the global economy, and its workforce was growing; but now its share of world trade is declining and the baby boomers are retiring.
Even before Crossroads GPS, the IRS had granted social welfare status to virtually every political group that sought it, from the right wing Koch network to the liberal David Brock American Bridge 21st Century Foundation.
Ryan's proposal is inspired by the enormously successful 1996 block grant welfare reforms of the old, New Deal, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.
In 2011, social grants including the elderly grant, child welfare grant, orphan and vulnerable child education grant, as well as public assistance grant, were suspended or delayed.
Granting the welfare state's virtues — the safety net alleviates poverty and cushions the effects of recessions — it's time to pose some basic questions.
After Dec. 2, aid to the 32,800 city recipients who run out the federal welfare clock would have to come from the state and city treasuries, rather than from the federal welfare block grant created when welfare legislation was overhauled in 1996.
This is another example of corporate welfare granted at the expense of the little guy.
Of course, while they were granted states, this welfare world has not come about.
After earning a master's degree in social work, he became an instructor at Columbia's School of Social Work in 1947, and in 1952 he earned the first doctorate in social welfare granted by the school.
