The government has ruled out further social-welfare measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Joblessness Rose in December] Reference

This marks the century's third great upheaval in social-welfare policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip: The War On Poverty] Reference

Department is not a philanthropic foundation or a social-welfare institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

Clinton says the theme of his social-welfare policy is families with children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should We Rehire This Man?] Reference

Chirac had vowed to cut taxes, raise wages and protect social-welfare programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let Them Take Prozac] Reference

Even in societies with strong social-welfare provisions, job loss is traumatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Off the Layoffs] Reference

Stimulating growth requires Europe to reform its pension and social-welfare systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Misses The Point] Reference

Total social-welfare costs equal nearly 45 percent of GNP, the highest share in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberte, Egalite, Mediocrite] Reference

I'd come to town to report a story on the badly overburdened West German social-welfare system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reporter's Notebook: The Story Of A Lifetime] Reference

State spending on health care and other social-welfare programs has lagged behind other spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Counts the Cost of Hosting the Olympics] Reference

He promised millions of dollars in social-welfare spending tailored to each party's constituency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netanyahu Sworn In as Israeli Leader] Reference

But for the past two decades the social-welfare system has moved to restrict transracial adoption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics Of Adoption] Reference

The harsher effects of neoliberal policies have been tempered by increased social-welfare spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open For Business] Reference

But these things seem to me to point to a vastly superior, though not perfect, social-welfare system.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

In America, poor women are dependent on government-funded social-welfare programs for access to health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: More Than Genes V: Fetal Origins of Transgenerational Poverty] Reference

Why should anyone take his own money from social-welfare programs and invest it to cut down the price of oil?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Addicted to Oil?] Reference

In addition to cabinet seats, Mr. Netanyahu offered Labor a series of concessions on social-welfare policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netanyahu, Labor Set Coalition in Israel] Reference

Chile's expanded social-welfare program will still be less generous than those of other neighboring countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Models: A Big Step to the Left] Reference

In general, Hezbollah doesn't deny getting aid from Iran but says the aid is solely for social-welfare purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Weighs Sanctions] Reference

Bangladesh now leads South Asia in most social-welfare indicators -- including female literacy and poverty reduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullish on Bangladesh] Reference

Adapting training, unemployment and social-welfare programs to such a dynamic world is a challenge of the first order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Anyone Spare A Job?] Reference

Chile may not become a classic social-welfare state, but it is showing a social conscience lacking in the Pinochet era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Models: A Big Step to the Left] Reference

Some of the upfront costs of "going green" are offset by reductions in social-welfare services that good green jobs provide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Majora Carter: Greenwashing Our Cities?] Reference

Within Europe's burgeoning social-welfare state, the opportunities for graft are almost limitless -- and therefore irresistible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Dirty Secret] Reference

Emigration could even help in the short term, by keeping a lid on unemployment and whittling the government's social-welfare payments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Crisis Strikes at Irish Heartland] Reference

Will the Continent go along in its time-honored way, protecting government monopolies, favored industries and cozy social-welfare systems?.    From Wordnik.com.  [TURNING OFF THE LIGHTS] Reference

The prime beneficiaries are the former communists, who argue they will continue the reforms-but ease the pain with a bigger social-welfare net.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just A Couple Of Good Ole Boys] Reference

Over the past year, Europeans have proven themselves to be more committed to both the social-welfare state and their EU institutions than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Will Get It Right] Reference

Parents who detect these danger signs and reach out to schools, social-welfare agencies and the justice system for help too often come up empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Teens Fall Apart] Reference

It's faith-based pork: federal money flowing to churches and religious institutions to carry out the aims of government social-welfare programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: Is Bush's Base Beginning to Crumble?] Reference

To be sure, that endorsement has much to do with the president's championing of human-rights issues and increased spending on social-welfare programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comeback?] Reference

On the one hand, there is what's been called "Core Europe," led by France and Germany, which cherishes a continent of protectionist social-welfare states.    From Wordnik.com.  [EUROPE'S DREAM DEFERRED] Reference

But even strong stomachs turn when -- as happened in Angola -- the social-welfare minister imports 300 Mercedes-Benz cars into a country racked by civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corruption] Reference

"Chile is not far away from restoring a social-welfare state," says Chilean economist Manuel Riesco, who has studied development models throughout the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Models: A Big Step to the Left] Reference

More important, it furnishes them with a new vocabulary, a socially acceptable code for uttering grievances -- chiefly the social-welfare costs of carrying new immigrants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Cultural Nationalism] Reference

In the next few months the government will have to make some nasty cuts in public spending and social-welfare programs to keep the nation's budget deficit within EU limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's In Charge Here?] Reference