How to Use social welfare in a Sentence
social welfare
noun-
One, any kind of social welfare payment should be time-bound.
— Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018 -
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 -
The institutions of social welfare were outsourced to the Catholic Church.
— Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019 -
Some locals feel that the money could be better spent on social welfare.
— Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018 -
To work for the economic, moral, religious and social welfare of women and youth.
— Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 17 July 2022 -
That social welfare perspective is a wider lens that appeals to Mr. Romer and others.
— Steve Lohr, New York Times, 20 May 2021 -
Trump was shrewd enough to realize that cuts to social welfare programs were exploitable in 2016.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
UC Berkeley’s schools of social welfare and public health also would help.
— Teresa Watanabe, latimes.com, 3 May 2018 -
The high-profile event is used to announce broad goals for the economy, social welfare and other issues.
— Joe McDonald, ajc, 3 Mar. 2022 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Our social welfare system needs to be reformed, not politicized.
— Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021 -
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 -
Palestinian officials have said the payments are a form of social welfare.
— Paul Sonne, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017 -
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 -
Crime was low in the country, known for its peace, prosperity and liberal social welfare.
— Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
The groups were set up as nonprofits that, ostensibly, were to aid social welfare causes.
— John Caniglia, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2020 -
Or any other broader measure of social welfare, for that matter.
— Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018 -
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 -
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 -
Build Back Better package aimed at tackling climate change and social welfare.
— Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023 -
The gala, which Variety’s Marc Malkin will host, will honor the actors for their work with charitable and social welfare causes.
— Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024 -
The community IDs cannot be used to vote, drive or receive social welfare benefits.
— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024 -
The annual gala, hosted by Variety’s Marc Malkin, honors actors, writers and producers across the industry for their work with social welfare, charitable and philanthropic causes.
— Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024 -
As well as having a political and military wing, Hezbollah also provides various services, such as social welfare, health care, utilities, education and even security to his community.
— Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
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