welfare
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He quit the civil service in 1994 and subsisted on welfare checks while teaching himself to write plays because they seemed simpler than movies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
On Feb. 5, 2021, relatives called deputies for a welfare check on Garza, whose mental health had begun to deteriorate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
For his supporters, Lula is a working-class hero credited with advancing workers' rights through organising strikes and lifting millions of people out of poverty with generous social welfare programmes as president.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Danish Nature Minister Christian Rabjerg Madsen said the government had chosen animal welfare.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Some people at school—not to mention half the people on Little Hobart Street—were on welfare, and it wasn’t so bad.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Vocabulary lists containing welfare
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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