subsistence
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State Supt. of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond described his childhood subsistence on food stamps, free school lunches and surplus government cheese.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026
In any case, he says, “in modern welfare states, the struggle for subsistence has been abolished.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Greenland's 57,000-strong population -- nearly 90 percent indigenous Inuit people -- has long traditions of hunting and fishing as the primary means of subsistence.
From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026
Together, these remains point to a balanced subsistence strategy that combined fishing, hunting, gathering, and farming.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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