How to Use welfare state in a Sentence

welfare state

noun

• Cheap goods and the welfare state pushed by the left, were not enough.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• Those are some of the main pillars of the welfare state.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 13 June 2018
• Few were still mighty after the creation of the welfare state.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• There is no rescue on the way for Britain’s welfare state.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• This is where the Democrats are willing to talk the talk about a cradle-to-grave welfare state, but not walk the walk.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 14 Sep. 2021
• Obamacare was the largest expansion of the welfare state in decades.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Sep. 2017
• What emerged was a blueprint for the modern welfare state.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Some parts of the welfare state could also be handed over.
  — Miranda Green, Newsweek, 17 July 2014
• With the advent of the New Deal and the social-welfare state, the machines began to die off, and the police were on their own.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• In his road-building projects that employed the poor lie the foundations of the welfare state.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Indeed, that is the main reason why our welfare state is so rotten in the first place.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 9 June 2020
• In the '80s, most far-right parties were hostile to immigrants and the welfare state.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
• The president campaigned as a reformer of the welfare state, the cost of which has led to large budget deficits.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• To the extent that the United States has a welfare state, it is not being furnished by oil wealth.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
• One canard about immigrants is that many come for the comforts of the welfare state.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2022
• The two groups make up over 30% of the population, putting a strain on Israel’s welfare state.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• Here the promise of a vast welfare state solely funded by new taxes on the rich runs aground.
  — Matthew Zeitlin, Vox, 2 July 2019
• The welfare state might keep people housed and fed, but the cost is existential.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• The growth of the welfare state limits the chances that declining cities will disappear.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• In Kuwait’s lavish welfare state, the cost per gallon is nearly four times less.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022
• Third, the tigers’ thin welfare states have also become a hindrance.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• From Lloyd George to Reuther, the advance of the welfare state, the advance of the bureaucracy to power, has been almost unchecked.
  — Frank S. Meyer, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
• The expansion of the welfare state has been the greatest in living memory.
  — The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021
• The Czechs wanted a more laissez-faire economy, and the Slovaks wanted more of a welfare state.
  — Kurt Andersen, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• The last one to be held when the health service was on the ropes was in 1987, when its finances were in a bad way, notes Nicholas Timmins, a historian of the welfare state.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Liberals have trillions of ideas on how to expand the welfare state, and not a single one on how to save people from it.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
• Many of Europe’s strongest welfare states found their initial form in the postwar moments of the first half of the 20th century.
  — Daniel Susskind, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
• Didn’t need no welfare state, Everybody pulled his weight.
  — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
• On one hand, farmers are wards of the welfare state, dependent on national governments and the European Union for the generous subsidies and suite of protectionist trade policies that keep them in business.
  — Jan Dutkiewicz, Vox, 2 May 2024
• The immigrants-abuse-welfare objection ignores the fundamental injustice of the welfare state.
  — Agustina Vergara Cid, Orange County Register, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024