Sentence examples for is on welfare from inspiring English sources

No one in this show is on welfare, no one has what we would call, in quotes, 'real problems', but I also believe problems are relative, and although some people are born in unspeakably terrible conditions, some people are born in the suburbs of Michigan and everybody is in pain.

Naturally, Mr LePage presents the trimming of the public payroll as a splendid achievement.In Washington County, along Maine's hardscrabble northern fringes, one resident in five is poor and one in three is on welfare.

Her mother, Millie, 42, is on welfare.

But if someone is on welfare they have negative value.

Prescriptions are collected at a cost to the taxpayer, if the cardholder is on welfare.

She is on welfare, and receives Supplemental Security Income for Cree.

We may speak of how good someone's life is at a particular moment, or how good their life is as a whole; our focus here is on welfare-values of entire lives.

Denise Lawson, an administrative assistant and minister who used to be on welfare, was one of them.

"I'm one check away from being on welfare," Ms. Francis said.

"As it happens, I was on welfare for one month," she explains.

At any one time, roughly 30% of Tulare County's 300,200 residents are on welfare.