welfare
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Welfare offices became “job centers” and set welfare recipients to painting park benches, raking leaves and cleaning courtrooms.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
A remarkable dividend of the new approaches to crime and welfare, one with only anecdotal rather than social-science evidence, was a dramatic thaw in race relations, as fear and resentment abated.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
The Edinburgh administration also has important tax and welfare powers.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
The state's debt deepened, while the central bank estimated that just four of her welfare schemes for women consumed nearly a quarter of its own-source revenue.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Anything that disturbs mitosis is therefore a grave threat to the welfare of the organism affected and to its descendants.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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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