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welfare state

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as in state

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Recent Examples on the Web 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 effects of the expansion of the welfare state on the Black community should be taught as part of critical race theory. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 Feb. 2024 The issue of immigrants and welfare is not fundamentally about immigration, but about the welfare state. —

Agustina Vergara Cid, Orange County Register, 3 June 2024 Between the 1930s and the 1960s, the New Deal and Great Society programs created by Democrats ballooned the size of the welfare state. —

TIME, 10 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for welfare state

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