With the help of crude prices hovering around $100 a barrel, he has raised living standards and widened the welfare state with region-leading social spending.
The 48-year-old Correa has raised living standards for the lower classes and widened the welfare state with region-leading social spending but critics including international human rights groups call him a bully.
With income inequity widening, welfare for the first time has become a major political issue in South Korea.
Meanwhile, Clinton's welfare reform policies widened the gap between the black middle class and the poor.
Right now I want to... convince parliament that the HFE Act must be widened in scope to include the welfare of women in addition to the welfare of children.
The credibility gap has widened in the current Dept. of Health, Educ, and Welfare split over the issue of school desegregation.
In the opening decades of the 20th century, support for democracy was widened by extensions to the franchise and the foundation of welfare states.
As social affairs minister in several governments since 1987, she is credited with pushing through policies that widened housing opportunities for Iceland's poor and strengthened the social welfare system.
This influx of people has led, in the short term, to widening inequality and higher welfare costs as the immigrants are absorbed, but it also means that the U.S. will be, through our lifetimes, young, ambitious and energetic.
Will the welfare reforms widen or narrow the gap between rich and poor communities in the UK?
