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Recent Examples of welfare state
With Kuwait’s economy shrinking for two straight years and oil prices below breakeven levels, reducing the number of citizens can help ease the burden on the country’s generous welfare state.
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semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025
What took shape instead were President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and the broader suite of Great Society programs—a sweeping expansion of the American welfare state, though one that stopped short of the jobs guarantee that Rustin, King, and Randolph had deemed essential.
—Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Even the most generous welfare states do very little to defray those costs.
—New York Times, 24 July 2025
And paradoxically, most of the remedies for inequality that Zuckerberg mentioned in his address—a universal basic income, affordable childcare, better health care, and continuous education—are viable only as national policies delivered by the twentieth-century welfare state.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025
What took shape instead were President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and the broader suite of Great Society programs—a sweeping expansion of the American welfare state, though one that stopped short of the jobs guarantee that Rustin, King, and Randolph had deemed essential.
—Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Even the most generous welfare states do very little to defray those costs.
—New York Times, 24 July 2025
And paradoxically, most of the remedies for inequality that Zuckerberg mentioned in his address—a universal basic income, affordable childcare, better health care, and continuous education—are viable only as national policies delivered by the twentieth-century welfare state.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare state
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That later became the foundational precedent for centuries of papal claims to secular authority over the papal states of the Romagna.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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What’s the state of the literary community in rural Montana these days?—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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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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Above all, China fears that its unpredictable and often aggressive client state could spark a military conflict with South Korea and the United States, potentially dragging Beijing into a second Korean War.—
SHUXIAN LUO,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Aug. 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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The hope for gold-producing nations like Ghana is to responsibly leverage this bountiful natural resource without falling prey to environmental degradation and civil strife.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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The economics of access to orbit could shift dramatically, allowing smaller nations, private companies, and universities to participate in projects once limited to government agencies.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
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The commonwealth does have a Republican governor after Glenn Youngkin, who is term-limited, won in 2021.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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According to data from the Kentucky Cabinet of Health and Family Services, more than 562,000 people across nearly 271,000 households in the commonwealth received SNAP benefits in June 2025.—
Keisha Rowe,
Louisville Courier Journal,
21 Oct. 2025
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When Texas experimented with a similar citizenship data review process in 2019, three federal lawsuits were filed, and three months in, the Texas secretary of state agreed to end the experiment as part of a settlement.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
21 Oct. 2025
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Nearly two dozen lawmakers in Netanyahu’s coalition signed a letter to Israel’s defense minister urging him to permit activists into Gaza itself to scout possible settlement locations.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
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Europe’s over-reliance on Chinese manufacturing and American defence technology has created dual dependencies that undermine strategic autonomy.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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Among the allegations, the USTR determined that China uses state subsidies to lessen competition and create dependencies on the country for non-market entrants.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
14 Oct. 2025
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Ohio law already limits how schools can approach vaccine mandates.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 2025
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Voices in the power industry note other factors raising electric bills, such as state-level mandates for clean energy.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Welfare state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20state. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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