Sentence examples for welfare about from inspiring English sources

There are about 600,000 city residents on welfare, about two-thirds of them children.

As we heard in Radio 4's The State of Welfare – about the welfare state, geddit?

For the 2002 fiscal year, New Jersey received about $100 million in one type of federal aid for child welfare, about a quarter of it earmarked for adoption.

Voicing sentiments that are common enough among arrivals from the former Soviet Union -- though not, generally, among their children, educated here -- she complained bitterly about the bad treatment caseworkers give ex-Soviets asking for welfare, about the loud music of her neighbors and the continual worries about making ends meet.

Levitt insisted that there should not be distractions from social obligations, employment, and welfare, about which he was concerned from the early days of capitalism.

Yet critics say much more needs to be done, and point out that China spends only about 6% of GDP on social welfare, about half the level of countries at a similar level of development.

The laws grew out of several anxieties, about welfare fraud, about inefficiency and ineptitude in the Immigration and Naturalization Service and about a wave of immigration from the third world.

Most of those people were confused and upset, worrying about his welfare, wondering about his motives.

As he is hauled repeatedly from shower to car to bed, I was less worried about his welfare than about the suffering of the actor playing him.

Mr Iqbal claims that the embassy official once acted like "a third interrogator", asking him not about his welfare, but about other matters.

He could have said more that was daring about welfare reform and about workfare.