How to Use social welfare in a Sentence
social welfare
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One, any kind of social welfare payment should be time-bound.
—Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
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Part of the problem is that more social welfare is available for Ukrainians who aren’t IDPs.
—Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
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The institutions of social welfare were outsourced to the Catholic Church.
—Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019
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Some locals feel that the money could be better spent on social welfare.
—Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
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To work for the economic, moral, religious and social welfare of women and youth.
—Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 17 July 2022
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That social welfare perspective is a wider lens that appeals to Mr. Romer and others.
—Steve Lohr, New York Times, 20 May 2021
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Trump was shrewd enough to realize that cuts to social welfare programs were exploitable in 2016.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
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Those are countries that have very strong social welfare systems.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2025
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When the agency determines if a child should be removed from a home, the decision is based on social welfare.
—Yihyun Jeong, azcentral, 11 Aug. 2016
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UC Berkeley’s schools of social welfare and public health also would help.
—Teresa Watanabe, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
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The high-profile event is used to announce broad goals for the economy, social welfare and other issues.
—Joe McDonald, ajc, 3 Mar. 2022
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The changes in the bill link increases in social welfare benefits to inflation and salaries, rather than tax revenue and salaries.
—Daniel Politi, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
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But officials indicated to the AP that social welfare staff will be on hand to help with such cases.
—Time, 31 Mar. 2025
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With national-level Democrats stymied in their efforts to pass social welfare and voting rights bills, what's next?
—Joel Mathis, The Week, 21 Jan. 2022
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Kerala state punch above its weight on economic and social welfare now appear to be holding it back.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2023
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Keep in mind that this is the same Republican Party that is seeking to make sweeping cuts to social welfare programs.
—Monique Judge, The Root, 27 Oct. 2017
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Our social welfare system needs to be reformed, not politicized.
—Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
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To their lasting dismay, Democrats have not managed to match the New Deal era with a twenty-first-century social welfare agenda.
—Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
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Palestinian officials have said the payments are a form of social welfare.
—Paul Sonne, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
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Wages are hardly rising, and these social welfare programs could be the only reason millions of low-wage workers have food on the table.
—Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
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Crime was low in the country, known for its peace, prosperity and liberal social welfare.
—Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
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The current proposal offers temporary residence rights to refugees from Ukraine for up to three years, which would include the right to work and social welfare.
—NBC News, 3 Mar. 2022
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Oaks, the author of a book on safe haven laws, talked about the need for more awareness around existing social welfare programs so women can raise babies themselves.
—Isabelle Chapman and Daniel A. Medina, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
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The groups were set up as nonprofits that, ostensibly, were to aid social welfare causes.
—John Caniglia, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2020
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The government set more modest increases of around 5 percent in spending on health care and social welfare.
—Chris Buckley, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2025
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Or any other broader measure of social welfare, for that matter.
—Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
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Those are strong arguments against relying on such a tax to fund social welfare, which ought to rely on a firm and dependable revenue base.
—Noah Millman, The Week, 28 Oct. 2021
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When the police used violence to crush a peaceful protest against cuts to social welfare on April 18, all that discontent just exploded.
—Vivienne Walt, Time, 12 July 2018
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Build Back Better package aimed at tackling climate change and social welfare.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
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González, embracing Correa’s economic legacy, pledged to renegotiate the Fund deal, reduce taxes, and expand social welfare programs.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
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