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Recent Examples of welfare state
These recent arrivals have stoked social tensions and raised concerns about the growing strain on the welfare state.
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Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare state
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Before the outbreak this year, state records showed that Arizona did not have more than 46 measles cases in a year since 1991, according to the newspaper.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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The surge of activity at the memorial fits into a wider Republican push to erase Democrats’ registration advantages in battleground states.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Sep. 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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Drone overflights again caused disruptions at Danish airports on Wednesday night, officials said, in the latest instance of unexplained drone sightings over sensitive facilities in the Scandinavian nation.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
25 Sep. 2025
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Allowing violent rhetoric to fester on our nation’s campuses without consequences is dangerous.—
Christopher Tremoglie,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Sep. 2025
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The commonwealth’s gubernatorial race has become a split screen of sorts, with Spanberger touting the economy as her main issue and Earle-Sears focusing on cultural issues.—
Julia Manchester,
The Hill,
30 Sep. 2025
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The fall season is here, and while many are enjoying the colorful leaves, apple orchards and pumpkin spice lattes, colder weather will soon be approaching in the commonwealth.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Sep. 2025
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The administration previously reached settlement agreements with Columbia and Brown to resolve civil rights investigations and restore their federal research funding.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The investigation also showed settlement agreements ALDOT had signed with some residents soon after flooding concerns arose, paying each homeowner up to $5,000.—
Maia Rosenfeld,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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When traffic collapsed after a major search algorithm update, the team reworked audience acquisition to reduce single-source dependency.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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As a purist, Murray defines sobriety as being completely abstinent from habit-forming substances that could cause dependency, including prescription drugs like Xanax and Suboxone.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
23 Sep. 2025
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For the next eight years, the PTC — a group that clearly had a social agenda — had the opportunity to whisper in the ears of commissioners from the FCC, a group that by both history and mandate clearly did not.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Sep. 2025
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Wilson said she was especially disturbed that Ladapo, who is Black, compared mandates to slavery.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Welfare state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20state. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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