welfare state
Example Sentences
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But, unlike the election campaign in 2022, the run-up to Sunday's vote was dominated by different issues, like the rising cost of living and the need to protect the welfare state.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
But the entire welfare state, from food benefits and Medicaid to disability and cash assistance, exists to help families with the lowest earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
He ended decades of political dominance by dynastic parties and envisioned a national welfare state modelled on the Islamic golden age of the seventh to 14th centuries, a flourishing period in the Muslim world.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The "unprecedented growth in India's welfare state", particularly direct cash transfers, is an indication, Mehrotra says, that at least privately the government has recognised the problem.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
By this argument, belief in demonic magic ought not to have declined until there was a general improvement in living standards, and perhaps not until the development of the welfare state.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
