welfare state

Fossil fuels helped to catapult Norway from a stable but small fishing and timber economy into one of the wealthiest and most progressive welfare states in the world.

Paradoxically, the country’s ability to provide climate stewardship and leadership on the global stage was built on the back of fossil fuels—as was its generous welfare state.

More and more tech workers wish to relocate to Germany, with the welfare state providing a model for the future.

Economist Thomas Piketty recognizes the dangers of rising nationalism and inequality, but hopes we learn “to invest more in the welfare state.”

It is true for example, that the welfare states are both more generous in ethnically homogenous places, and it’s almost assuredly true that they’re also more functional.

Ryan insinuated that the Democratic Party is selling the American people a welfare state.

While the Israeli welfare state goes to pieces, benefits and government subsidies to settlements are skyrocketing.

Hard as they tried, George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole could never muster much rage against the welfare state.

Given these numbers, Republicans might cheer the collapse of the social-democratic welfare state.

They did not consider the welfare state a threat to individual freedom.

Policymakers explain developments by causes such as globalisation, technology and welfare state sclerosis.

It's time to replace the assumptions of the welfare state and help reform the welfare system.