How to Use welfare state in a Sentence

welfare state

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  • 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
  • What emerged was a blueprint for the modern welfare state.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Sweden Democrats, meanwhile, hew to conventional views on the need to spend more on Sweden’s welfare state.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2018
  • All of this is fascinating to watch and offers some hope that the welfare states of Europe can be reformed to create the growth to pay their way.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • Better, an expansion of the welfare state that would dwarf ObamaCare.
    — Bobby Jindal, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • But the welfare state's rate of expansion merely slowed over the course of the 1980s (in part because of declining inflation).
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Liberals view a larger welfare state as an unalloyed good, but what’s the track record?
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Elliott often points to the role of a dysfunctional welfare state.
    — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Saudi Arabia wants to move beyond its rentier welfare state, which, as of 2017, employed two-thirds of the country’s workforce.
    — Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024

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