welfare
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Seizing on the 1996 welfare reform act, the Giuliani administration started an ambitious workfare program.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Welfare offices became “job centers” and set welfare recipients to painting park benches, raking leaves and cleaning courtrooms.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
As early as 2009, he began reorganising fan clubs into the Vijay Makkal Iyakkam - a welfare network that worked at the neighbourhood level, offering relief, education support and local assistance.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
"Banerjee's long electoral success rested on a delicate equilibrium between welfare and organisation. But the very organisation that sustained her for 15 years also became her Achilles' heel," says political scientist Bhanu Joshi.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
The fisheries of fresh and salt water are a resource of great importance, involving the interests and the welfare of a very large number of people.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing welfare
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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