welfare state

The party, founded by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1940s and long associated with Argentina’s welfare state, remains a formidable force but failed to mobilize disenchanted voters as inflation eased from its historic highs.

Raising taxes only drives away the businesses and wealthy taxpayers governments need to finance their generous welfare states.

The first showed beyond doubt that America’s welfare state did little to alleviate poverty and much to perpetuate it.

The budget plan at issue, which imposes ever-so-minor checks on the future rate of increase of some spending, is wholly inadequate to the task of reining in France’s out-of-control welfare state.

The suspension highlights a broader tension facing Western Europe’s traditionally generous welfare states: longer-living populations are straining public finances, yet voters often resist cuts to benefits.