safety net
Example Sentences
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It will also bring changes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — the three gargantuan federal programs that make up the social safety net on which tens of millions of people depend.
From MarketWatch
In financial services, insurers and fintech firms are designing policies tailored to unmarried customers who lack spousal safety nets.
From Barron's
It would also free up funds to help address another fundamental problem in China’s economy: A relatively thin social safety net that leaves many people focused on saving rather than spending what they earn.
County’s acting chief executive officer, said he believed the region’s social safety net was now “an investment opportunity.”
From Los Angeles Times
The idea of expanding the government’s safety net may sound like a reasonable measure to prevent bank failures.
From Barron's
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