Sentence examples for took welfare from inspiring English sources
She said that last year one teacher told all of the Iraqi students to go back to their country, complaining that they took welfare and other money from the United States.
We romanticize a fictional poor person that takes pride that s/he never took welfare, no matter how tough times were.
She claims she'll never take welfare, but we'll see how long that lasts.
In other instances, parents may struggle with the stigmatizing perception that they might be taking welfare.
He attended the University of Chicago and worked at odd jobs, including reporting for a jewelry journal and taking welfare complaints as a caseworker.
While McDonald's or other fast food companies save pennies and boost their profitability by paying a low wage, their workers cannot survive on that amount and often end up taking welfare benefits.
But taking welfare as what is to be equalized leads into major difficulties, which resemble those of utilitarianism.
There are some exceptions, most notably Amartya Sen (1987a,b,c, 1992), but most economists take welfare to coincide more or less with the satisfaction of preference.
Unlike hedonism, taking welfare to match the satisfaction of preference specifies how to find out what is good for a person rather than committing itself to any substantive view of a person's good.
That response, I think, misses the point - GE should pay its own bills without taking welfare.
