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Recent Examples of welfare state
Opponents of immigration are prone to say that the existence of the welfare state makes the inflow of workers from Central America a non-starter.
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Since 1980, the working people in countries that built welfare states have only lost, while income concentration has increased.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 8 May 2025
The deluge of immigration that followed has strained Canada’s welfare state and exacerbated the housing shortage.
—The Editors, National Review, 7 Jan. 2025
The same goes for Brenda Blethyn, so effortlessly affecting as a wife and mother reduced to becoming a client to the welfare state, a degradation that Colleen just can’t begin to tolerate.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 June 2025
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Since 1980, the working people in countries that built welfare states have only lost, while income concentration has increased.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 8 May 2025
The deluge of immigration that followed has strained Canada’s welfare state and exacerbated the housing shortage.
—The Editors, National Review, 7 Jan. 2025
The same goes for Brenda Blethyn, so effortlessly affecting as a wife and mother reduced to becoming a client to the welfare state, a degradation that Colleen just can’t begin to tolerate.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare state
Noun
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Why do some states have more Representatives than others?A.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
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While Price was questioning the Blue Hills relationship with SHEBA, Cicero-Hamlin’s new organization was collecting another $1.8 million in state grant money from other nonprofit organizations.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
17 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.—
Lloyd Axworthy,
Foreign Affairs,
15 May 2024
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Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.—
Michael M. Phillips,
WSJ,
1 Feb. 2022
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That commitment to Marxist-Leninist ideological purity damaged the KGB’s analytical performance: the agency routinely underestimated the resilience of Western cohesion and overestimated the strength of Soviet client states and revolutionary movements.—
David V. Gioe,
Foreign Affairs,
2 July 2025
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English focused on Poland because the country had a long history of underground revolutionary culture; when the USSR turned independent Poland into a client state known as the People’s Republic of Poland, the Poles already knew how to go underground to fight back.—
Valorie Castellanos Clark,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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And disappear it from membership in a community of nations built around even a flawed decency?—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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By 2009, however, the numbers started to turn, thanks to offshore drilling and new fracking technology, until U.S. crude oil output surpassed not just the country’s 1970 peak but that of every other crude-pumping nation throughout all of history.—
Alexander C. Kaufman,
The Atlantic,
11 Aug. 2025
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One Kentucky city tops the list, but city leaders dispute findings Lyndon, located just outside Louisville in Jefferson County, is considered the most dangerous city in the commonwealth.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Aug. 2025
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Additionally, Earle-Sears and Miyares benefited from Youngkin’s 2021 campaign, which saw Republicans make inroads throughout the commonwealth.—
Julia Manchester,
The Hill,
23 July 2025
Noun
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The season 27 premiere, which aired July 23, targeted Trump and his lawsuit settlement with Paramount, portraying the president as Satan’s lover, though Satan repeatedly rebuffs his advances.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Employers who come into compliance typically avoid a citation or fine, although 38 employers under investigation reached a pre-citation settlement and paid $222,500 in fines.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
7 Aug. 2025
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Identify adversarial country dependencies and invest in domestic alternatives.—
Shaun Walsh,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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But the colonel had developed a gambling addiction to go along with Elvis’ drug dependency.—
Kim Willis,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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Trust builds when leaders say no to expansion, but then protect the teams working inside the smaller mandate.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Australia is attempting to ban those under sixteen from social media, including from YouTube, and is set to roll out age-verification mandates even for search engines.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Welfare state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20state. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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