How to Use social welfare in a Sentence

social welfare

noun
  • One, any kind of social welfare payment should be time-bound.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
  • Those are countries that have very strong social welfare systems.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Those are countries that have very strong social welfare systems.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Some locals feel that the money could be better spent on social welfare.
    — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Our social welfare system needs to be reformed, not politicized.
    — Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • Kerala state punch above its weight on economic and social welfare now appear to be holding it back.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Or any other broader measure of social welfare, for that matter.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
  • At the same time, social welfare and other areas of the economy lag behind.
    — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • To work for the economic, moral, religious and social welfare of women and youth.
    — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 17 July 2022
  • When the agency determines if a child should be removed from a home, the decision is based on social welfare.
    — Yihyun Jeong, azcentral, 11 Aug. 2016
  • Palestinian officials have said the payments are a form of social welfare.
    — Paul Sonne, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The high-profile event is used to announce broad goals for the economy, social welfare and other issues.
    — Joe McDonald, ajc, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Crime was low in the country, known for its peace, prosperity and liberal social welfare.
    — Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The groups were set up as nonprofits that, ostensibly, were to aid social welfare causes.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2020
  • With national-level Democrats stymied in their efforts to pass social welfare and voting rights bills, what's next?
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The changes in the bill link increases in social welfare benefits to inflation and salaries, rather than tax revenue and salaries.
    — Daniel Politi, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Build Back Better package aimed at tackling climate change and social welfare.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Trump was shrewd enough to realize that cuts to social welfare programs were exploitable in 2016.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The institutions of social welfare were outsourced to the Catholic Church.
    — Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Somalia’s clans have always been strong and are the only source of security and social welfare for most people.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Those are strong arguments against relying on such a tax to fund social welfare, which ought to rely on a firm and dependable revenue base.
    — Noah Millman, The Week, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Wages are hardly rising, and these social welfare programs could be the only reason millions of low-wage workers have food on the table.
    — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
  • The government set more modest increases of around 5 percent in spending on health care and social welfare.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2025
  • But officials indicated to the AP that social welfare staff will be on hand to help with such cases.
    — Time, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Part of the problem is that more social welfare is available for Ukrainians who aren’t IDPs.
    — Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Oaks, the author of a book on safe haven laws, talked about the need for more awareness around existing social welfare programs so women can raise babies themselves.
    — Isabelle Chapman and Daniel A. Medina, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The community IDs cannot be used to vote, drive or receive social welfare benefits.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But if liberal Democrats from safe seats were dug in on their ambitious social welfare and climate change bill, those from swing districts were clearly spooked.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Public health, labor systems and social welfare programs expanded during this time.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Keep in mind that this is the same Republican Party that is seeking to make sweeping cuts to social welfare programs.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 27 Oct. 2017

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