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welfare state

noun as in government taking social responsibility

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Americans who have had their run-ins with the health insurance industry, never mind our own inadequate welfare state, won’t have trouble feeling indignation.

He told Labour activists: "If we want to maintain support for the welfare state, then we will legislate to stop benefit fraud, do everything we can to tackle worklessness."

From BBC

Public consent for the welfare state requires legislation to stop benefit fraud.

From BBC

Democrats want to expand the welfare state so that our social insurance system would look more like Europe’s.

From Salon

His neighbors in Middletown had lost – thanks to the welfare state – “the tie that bound them to their neighbors, that inspired them in the way my patriotism had always inspired me.”

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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