How to Use social welfare in a Sentence

social welfare

noun
Definition of social welfarenext
  • One, any kind of social welfare payment should be time-bound.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
  • 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
  • The institutions of social welfare were outsourced to the Catholic Church.
    — Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Some locals feel that the money could be better spent on social welfare.
    — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
  • To work for the economic, moral, religious and social welfare of women and youth.
    — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 17 July 2022
  • That social welfare perspective is a wider lens that appeals to Mr. Romer and others.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 20 May 2021
  • Trump was shrewd enough to realize that cuts to social welfare programs were exploitable in 2016.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
  • UC Berkeley’s schools of social welfare and public health also would help.
    — Teresa Watanabe, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • The high-profile event is used to announce broad goals for the economy, social welfare and other issues.
    — Joe McDonald, ajc, 3 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our social welfare system needs to be reformed, not politicized.
    — Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • To their lasting dismay, Democrats have not managed to match the New Deal era with a twenty-first-century social welfare agenda.
    — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Crime was low in the country, known for its peace, prosperity and liberal social welfare.
    — Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The current proposal offers temporary residence rights to refugees from Ukraine for up to three years, which would include the right to work and social welfare.
    — NBC News, 3 Mar. 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 groups were set up as nonprofits that, ostensibly, were to aid social welfare causes.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Or any other broader measure of social welfare, for that matter.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • When the police used violence to crush a peaceful protest against cuts to social welfare on April 18, all that discontent just exploded.
    — Vivienne Walt, Time, 12 July 2018
  • Build Back Better package aimed at tackling climate change and social welfare.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The gala, which Variety’s Marc Malkin will host, will honor the actors for their work with charitable and social welfare causes.
    — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The community IDs cannot be used to vote, drive or receive social welfare benefits.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Legacies of comprehensive social welfare programs leave Europe and Japan with the steepest hills to climb.
    — Nouriel Roubini, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • In fact, a similar constellation of populist figures has emerged, sharing platforms, plans, and ideologies, in countries where neoliberalism made little impact, and where a strong system of social welfare remains in place.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The annual gala, hosted by Variety’s Marc Malkin, honors actors, writers and producers across the industry for their work with social welfare, charitable and philanthropic causes.
    — Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024

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