Sentence examples for welfare dollars from inspiring English sources

Welfare dollars are used on divorced moms.

The same could be true of federal welfare dollars.

Nearly 70percentt of the state's welfare dollars is spent on antipoverty programs.

The large surpluses of welfare dollars that states were reporting a few years ago -- before Congress cracked down -- have dwindled.

In 1997, about 20percentt of the state's welfare dollars were spent on such programs, with most of the rest going to traditional cash benefits.

President Bush's plan calls for 70percentt of those receiving federal welfare dollars to be engaged in some kind of work activity.

The most convenient measure of welfare is dollars, although at this early stage of development of the science, that is not always a practical measure.

That is, whether a "dollar is a dollar" as welfare economics requires, or whether spending money in one area carries a different disutility from spending money in another area.

"Some are wedded to trillions of dollars of welfare spending, while others treat the trillions of dollars of corporate welfare funneled to the military-industrial complex as absolutely sacrosanct," Mr. Paul said.

In a country with 2.5 million long-term unemployed people, the coalition plans savings of tens of billions of dollars in welfare payments, including radical cuts in the rent the government would pay for subsidized housing.

It also increases the prospect that New York taxpayers will have to pick up tens of millions of dollars in welfare costs once the federal time limits take hold, because state law says the state cannot simply let those people fend for themselves.