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Recent Examples of welfare state
In 2008, the year of the global financial crisis, Merz published a book arguing that Germany should cut back its welfare state, deregulate its economy, and encourage people to buy more stocks instead of letting their savings languish in bank accounts.
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Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Immigration Helping Spain Spain has taken a different approach to immigration compared to many of its European counterparts, embracing it as a way to grow the economy and sustain the welfare state.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
But on domestic policy, there was a broad consensus supporting an active economic development program and a moderately generous welfare state.
—Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025
The nineteen-forties and fifties were supposedly an era of liberal consensus, when both parties agreed on the virtues of the welfare state and a U.S.-led international order.
—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Immigration Helping Spain Spain has taken a different approach to immigration compared to many of its European counterparts, embracing it as a way to grow the economy and sustain the welfare state.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
But on domestic policy, there was a broad consensus supporting an active economic development program and a moderately generous welfare state.
—Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025
The nineteen-forties and fifties were supposedly an era of liberal consensus, when both parties agreed on the virtues of the welfare state and a U.S.-led international order.
—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare state
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In recent years, various states have passed, or at least considered, a range of measures to support local outlets, including tax breaks, fellowship programs for early-career journalists, and redistributing tech profits to newsrooms.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
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The southern and eastern portions of the region known previously as the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir became two separate union territories, bringing them under direct control of New Delhi – a move Modi claimed would promote stability, reduce corruption and boost the economy.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 June 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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To secure an export corridor for Sudanese goods, Abu Dhabi has sent cargo flights full of powerful weapons, drones, and armored vehicles to the RSF via its client state (and Sudan’s western neighbor), Chad.—
Mai Hassan,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Apr. 2025
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In the early stages of the Cold War, Hungary, a client state controlled by the USSR, rebelled, fueled by student demonstrations arguing for secession and freedom of speech.—
Daniel Seifert,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Feb. 2025
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This change comes at a time when Syria and Israel are engaged in direct talks as Reuters revealed on Tuesday, marking a dramatic departure from the decades-long hostility between the two nations.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2025
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Some nine hundred thousand people from seventeen nations currently have T.P.S. But Trump has begun revoking it, country by country, including for some eight thousand Afghans and as many as half a million Haitians.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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Markey, according to potential challenger Earl Martin Phalen, has done an excellent job representing the commonwealth over his many years in office.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
4 June 2025
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Many on the list, which was shared with NPR, were for environmental justice projects, including one grant that supported initiatives such as flood mitigation in southwest Virginia, a deep red part of the commonwealth where communities have been shaped by the coal industry's booms and busts.—
Michael Copley,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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Payment Processing Systems: Facilitate fast, secure payment initiation, routing and settlement.—
Serge Beck,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Nobody is talking settlement right now, at least not before today.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
9 June 2025
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One of the first challenges is platform dependency.—
Serge Beck,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Canada has been in discussions with the European Union to join an EU drive to break its security dependency on the United States, with a focus on buying more defense equipment, including fighter jets, in Europe.—
Rob Gillies,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Furthermore, the mandates Kennedy opposes, which have been in place since the 1960s, have arguably helped to contribute to a dramatic decline in childhood infectious diseases.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Industry leaders stressed that Bangladesh needs a strong, stable political mandate to manage such external pressures.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
9 June 2025
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“Welfare state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20state. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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