welfare state
Example Sentences
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Britain is learning this lesson about its welfare state the hard way as a new government report revealed that one in eight of its working-age youth currently aren’t employed, in school or in job training.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
“I call this the social welfare state of two. We’ve privatized dependency within marriage.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
It was only in the 1990s that Germany began to let its defense industry shrivel again as it diverted spending toward the welfare state.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
Early on Monday, his government reached a budget agreement which he said was the only way to "guarantee the sustainability" of Belgium's welfare state.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
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
