Sentence examples for slash welfare from inspiring English sources

A majority Conservative government can slash welfare, introducing even more draconian restrictions on immigration and civil liberties.

In fact, the real goal of the 1996 legislation – at least, on the Republican side – was to slash welfare caseloads.

But it is a bold move at a time when he is about to slash welfare and the rate is already at the lowest in the G7.

Finally, ministers decided they had to slash welfare, but couldn't take money off pensioners – all that inevitably meant hacking back support for children, or people with disabilities.

See articleAhead of Brazil's presidential election run-off on October 26th Dilma Rousseff, the incumbent, appeared to gain ground as she accused her opponent, Aécio Neves, of wanting to slash welfare.

In 1996, she voted against welfare reform in the name of the poor (however, it has since helped to slash welfare rolls and reduce black poverty to historic lows).

And come to think of it, who better than Iain Duncan Smith to go on slashing welfare?

Acting in concert with national welfare reform, Giuliani's administration established the country's largest workfare program while slashing welfare rolls by more than 400,000.

He proposed $8.3 billion in cuts, slashing welfare, social services and health care for the elderly, and a 5 percent cut in hours for state employees.

The cuts in tax credits are set to come in the form of slashing welfare payments to working families with more than two children.

The party's platform featured support for the family, slashing welfare, a greater role for private health care and vague calls that immigrants conform to local customs.