Although these proposals would make only modest changes in the largest U.S. social welfare programs (Social Security and Medicare), which use federal funds to provide benefits to virtually all retired workers, the proposed changes would fundamentally restructure welfare programs for poor families (AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and Medicaid).
Restructure welfare programs to save money.
We've dramatically restructured the welfare system, and we're 571,000 fewer.
PAGE B1 Leftist Sweep in France The political left made strong gains in regional elections in a rebuke to President Jacques Chirac's conservative government and restructured social welfare policies.
A Kerry campaign aide said that if the campaign was forced to defend itself, it was "armed with a treasure-trove of votes that prove John Kerry's commitment to strong national defense, a stronger intelligence-gathering operation than George Bush has delivered, and to a long record of fighting the deficit, reforming education and restructuring welfare".
The proportion of children living in poverty in Canada and Australia rose in the 1980s and 90s, as a result of economic restructuring, welfare state cuts, and changes in family structure, particularly the substantial increase in single parent families.
Govt. reorganization, tax reform, restructuring the welfare system, the energy program - these are enormous legislative undertakings.
We must resist those who hold that the welfare state and workers' and trade union rights are the source of all evil, but our resistance to these neo-liberals will be all the more successful if we tackle the task of restructuring the welfare state in order to modernise it.
Therefore, he argues that partisan differences will disappear, and governments will attempt to renegotiate and restructure the welfare state under pressure from international competition.
The city solicited proposals for its pot of $616 million last year as part of an attempt to restructure the child welfare system and re-evaluate contracts, some of which had originally been issued nearly a decade ago.
