Sentence examples for version of welfare from inspiring English sources

It's also troubling that a considerable share of wealth today comes from the plutocratic version of welfare.

This was a cruder version of welfare minister Lord Freud's claim that demand had risen in food banks because the food was free (a claim subsequently shot down by the government's own research).

Because New York City runs by far the largest public workfare program in the country, its version of welfare reform has emerged as a focal point in the debate.

Iraq's government, he added, was suffering from the armed version of welfare dependency: "we've learned that when we tell Iraq's leaders that we'll stay as long as it takes, they take as long as they want".

Although he did not spell it out, this would probably involve capping spending as a proportion of GDP, breaking the link between the minimum wage and pensions, and reforming the pension system, Brazil's version of welfare for the rich.

Less than a tenth of recipients also receive cash payments from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programme (TANF), the reformed version of welfare; roughly a third get at least some income from wages.Spending on food stamps has risen so quickly because, unusually, almost all the needy are automatically and indefinitely eligible for them.

Bush describes his political epiphany in reaction to the Carter administration: "I worried about America drifting left, toward a version of welfare-state Europe, where central government planning crowded out free enterprise.

At almost the same time Labour's shadow welfare secretary Rachel Reeves confirmed on BBC2's Daily Politics that the state pension would be in their version of a welfare cap.

The Senate version of the welfare bill allows such programs, but the House version does not.

But the corporate version of the welfare state is not just about retirement and health care.

The Senate version of the welfare bill includes a big increase in money for child care.