noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
defence/welfare/education etc spending (=spending on defence etc)
▪ Further cuts in defence spending are being considered.
health/welfare/education expenditure (=money that a government spends on providing health services, welfare, or education)
▪ There has been a steady rise in welfare expenditure.
safeguard sb’s interests/rights/welfare etc
▪ The industry has a duty to safeguard consumers.
welfare rollsAmerican English (= a list of people without jobs who claim money from the state)
▪ Thompson said he had cut welfare rolls by 39%.
welfare state
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
corporate
▪ Among others pledging to fight corporate welfare were consumer activist Ralph Nader, Sens.
▪ But this raises the politically touchy issue of corporate welfare.
▪ And the administration tactfully distanced itself from Reich when he said any welfare reform ought to include corporate welfare as well.
economic
▪ The reason for this is that economic welfare stems from the activity of consumption.
▪ We highlighted the problems of using national income as an indicator of economic welfare.
▪ Thus, economic welfare has unambiguously been reduced.
▪ How can a market system-which operates globally as well as nationally-be governed to maximise economic and social welfare?
▪ In terms of economic welfare, as in terms of economic incentives, the picture is again unclear.
▪ What other data would be useful in determining the change in economic welfare? 3.
▪ The focus on households with children reflects recent trends in economic welfare in Britain.
▪ In Chapter 8, where welfare economics was introduced, we stated a very important condition for an increase in economic welfare.
federal
▪ Another large area of spending was that of Federal welfare schemes.
▪ Similarly, drug-free status must be a basic of eligibility for federal welfare benefits.
▪ Counties are also bracing for the brunt of federal welfare reform, expected to mark a significant loss of federal aid dollars.
▪ Welfare split A look at the differences between the new federal welfare law and evolving proposals from Republican Gov.
general
▪ One aspect of disorganized capitalism is pressure against general welfare expenditures for those not directly engaged in productive work.
▪ The Constitution requires that the federal government promote the general welfare of its people.
▪ The deaf and dumb are profoundly grateful for this provision made on their behalf for their general welfare.
▪ We can readily conclude that the provision is designed to serve the general welfare.
▪ What this means is that overall economic policy should be dictated by utilitarian considerations, aiming to improve the general welfare.
▪ The means it chose to address this dangerous situation were reasonably calculated to advance the general welfare.
▪ They decided the matter apparently on general welfare grounds and did not apply the section 25 criteria.
▪ It belongs to anyone from any country who is legitimately allowed to live here and who contributes to the general social welfare.
public
▪ We can only maintain a healthy scepticism of any claims to place public welfare above private interest.
▪ For example, a training program for public welfare workers could be the object of a special grant.
▪ But is the hallmark of social policy expenditure its contribution to public welfare, and what does this really mean?
▪ Consider public housing and welfare, which between them cost us roughly $ 30 billion per year.
▪ More than one in five households were eligible for some form of public welfare benefits.
social
▪ The austerity measures affected primarily spending on health, social welfare, defence and overseas development assistance.
▪ Critics worry that compassionate conservatism involves subcontracting social welfare to nutty evangelicals.
▪ New policies on developing the backward western provinces and improving health, education and social welfare are stressed.
▪ Spending cuts would especially affect public administration and, within the social welfare budget, the level of payments on sickness benefit.
▪ However, he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision.
▪ Cuts in social welfare and education included reduced subsidies for children's day-care centres.
▪ Not in urban development, not in city slum clearance, not in social welfare.
■ NOUN
animal
▪ Each year animal welfare groups document instances of cruelty, but prosecutions have been rare.
▪ Look out for our forthcoming profile of Sir Richard Body, and articles on farm animal welfare.
▪ But animal welfare officers were pleased with the result.
▪ Material also available on animal welfare, patterns of food consumption and grassland utilisation.
▪ Worries about pollution levels from intensive indoor units and growing concern about animal welfare are also motivating factors.
▪ There will also be an increase in humanitarian concerns about animal welfare.
▪ We stand for animal welfare, for animal protection, for compassion, for human responsibility to the other animals.
▪ I began by suggesting that, perhaps in practical terms, animal welfare and the protection of the environment have little in common.
benefit
▪ Without welfare benefits, many may become homeless, others will go hungry.
▪ In unitary states, governments must evaluate the trade-off between higher taxes and higher welfare benefits.
▪ If Congress ends welfare benefits, the state then would have to pick up the costs.
▪ Mr. Ashton How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts?
▪ Similarly, drug-free status must be a basic of eligibility for federal welfare benefits.
▪ In addition, government policies on taxation and welfare benefits will have a significant influence.
▪ The terminal workers were fired, and they lost their health and welfare benefits.
bill
▪ But the Republican governors recoiled from the prospect of reopening the welfare bill for anything.
▪ The current welfare bill includes money for day care.
▪ The president kept the Republicans from including Medicaid in the welfare bill.
▪ But the welfare bill has split the Democratic Party on the eve of its national convention in Chicago.
▪ The goal of the welfare bill is to devolve power and responsibilty to the states.
child
▪ But also the whole agenda of maternity and child welfare and its subsequent implementation was promoted by the guild.
▪ This is a hot line established by state child welfare agencies for the reporting of child abuse.
▪ Renewed commitment to child welfare had the initial effect of inducing parents to desert their offspring at an even faster rate.
▪ She also has little experience in child welfare.
▪ He advocates ways of limiting men's role in child welfare services, and says men should practice nurturing each other.
▪ But in the world of child welfare this empowerment in fact carries almost no power.
▪ She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country, and ran a working men's club.
▪ Unfortunately, our status quo is based on our belief that child welfare is the province of parents, not society.
law
▪ The survey is perhaps also significant for the total absence of any importance being placed on welfare law work.
▪ A series of welfare laws followed, promising a gradual transformation of Britain.
▪ The provision went on the books last year as part of an overhaul of state welfare law.
▪ Welfare split A look at the differences between the new federal welfare law and evolving proposals from Republican Gov.
▪ Clay Shaw, R-Fla., who chairs the subcommittee that will change the 1996 welfare law.
officer
▪ Where a public law application is consolidated with private law proceedings, however, a court welfare officer may already be involved.
▪ They are boycotting new assessment procedures, claiming social welfare officers were not being recognised for increased workloads.
▪ If you would like to apply for help, or find out who your local representative is, contact your welfare officer.
▪ Last year, a welfare officer warned the boy's grandparents his mental health was in danger.
▪ But animal welfare officers were pleased with the result.
▪ All the girls have social workers, or probation officers, or welfare officers.
▪ Full time welfare officers represent individuals at pension tribunals, and are able to offer professional advice on legal matters and housing.
▪ Student welfare officers became concerned about the intensity of Life at oxford University, and in todays report they urge immediate action.
overhaul
▪ State officials say the changes, which were included in the sweeping welfare overhaul law approved by the Legislature and Gov.
▪ From the left, he is accused of political cowardice in signing the Republican welfare overhaul with its roiling undercurrents of race.
▪ Maxine Waters, whose Los Angeles district would be hit hard by the welfare overhaul.
▪ Luntz recommends that Dole use welfare overhaul as a unifying issue, because it appeals to the Buchanan Brigades without offending moderates.
▪ Jackson, who opposes the welfare overhaul, says Clinton is far preferable to Dole.
▪ Public opinion polls show a majority of respondents support a welfare overhaul.
payment
▪ This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments.
▪ The liberal looks at welfare payments and sees them as pitifully low.
▪ Tax benefits are consumer led, unlike traditional welfare payments, which are subject to the Government's control of public expenditure.
▪ In any event, the welfare payment, from the point of view of the poor, is anything but negligibly small.
▪ In February 1992 the government had introduced minimal safety-net welfare payments, for which some 7,400,000 people were estimated to be eligible.
▪ What shows up in the statistics as fringe benefits is really a private social welfare payment from the young to the old.
▪ Rather than compromise on welfare payments, they were prepared to resign and leave social butchery to the Tories.
▪ It would be absurd and self-defeating to ask poor families to pay the taxes needed to finance their welfare payments!
policy
▪ In contrast to all other social welfare policies, public assistance programmes for the poor are the most controversial.
▪ Along with several other recommendations, the welfare policies must be voted on by all the governors in attendance.
▪ Nevertheless, the move back towards a more generous welfare policy for older people was hesitatingly slow.
▪ For the study of social need and welfare policy this is clearly right; yet it unwittingly helps to reinforce the stereotypes.
▪ The pressures of demand management and legitimacy therefore produced social democratic welfare policies at home.
▪ Other social welfare policies cause problems for women.
▪ Current welfare policies are increasingly seeking to build upon responsibilities between family members.
program
▪ There, in one county, state authorities are now studying proposals from companies about how they would run the welfare program.
▪ Mormon religious leaders generally became conservative Republicans who spoke out against trade unionism and welfare programs.
▪ The serious cutting will occur in the social welfare programs, which are pretty much all that remain.
▪ Others may have dropped out of the welfare programs.
▪ The Republicans are not for the most part protectors of these welfare programs.
▪ When Congress creates welfare programs, it must prescribe arbitrary limits for eligibility.
▪ Secondly, a federal law enacted last year requires California to create a radically new welfare program.
provision
▪ Underlying this hostility was a profound belief in the ethical and moral superiority of collective welfare provision.
▪ The welfare provisions, meanwhile, require states to put recipients to work and penalize those that fail to do so.
▪ The government believes that the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision.
▪ However, he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision.
▪ Parliament will soon be asked to approve measures to reform education, health, the criminal justice system and welfare provision.
▪ Claimants for social welfare provisions have not always been in a good position so far as procedural protection is concerned.
▪ Wider coverage accounts for well over half of the increase in the proportion of output devoted to welfare provision during the 1960s.
recipient
▪ Their plan would also soften the requirement that welfare recipients work.
▪ For business, there were offers of tax breaks for hiring welfare recipients.
▪ We see welfare recipients as our friends and allies.
▪ More than $ 300 million would be set aside for new tax credits for businesses who hire welfare recipients.
▪ Nevertheless, I sense a growing coldness toward homeless persons, as well as toward welfare recipients in general.
▪ Anyway, I see where 35, 000 welfare recipients have been put into workfare jobs in New York City.
▪ For a brief time she was a welfare recipient.
▪ Some welfare recipients -- Those with job skills could move rapidly into training, child care and job programs.
reform
▪ But the most powerful aspect of Englerization is welfare reform.
▪ He has yet to deliver on promises such as welfare reform, an overhaul of campaign financing or a balanced budget.
▪ But welfare reform is still worth a try.
▪ Once again Congress and the president have deadlocked over the issue of welfare reform.
▪ In human terms, however, welfare reform is definitely risky.
▪ But, in short order, Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.
▪ During the next three years, thousands of welfare families will be thrust into this low-income labor market because of welfare reform.
▪ To make welfare reform work, you need some one to take care of and educate children.
service
▪ These groups can also have different experiences of authority and welfare services.
▪ At the same time, health and welfare services will have to expand for a growing and aging population.
▪ C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants.
▪ He also wants to cut taxes, impose term limits and encourage churches to provide more welfare services.
▪ He advocates ways of limiting men's role in child welfare services, and says men should practice nurturing each other.
▪ Lack of adequate welfare services - health, housing, education - demonstrates the lack of sympathy for casualties.
▪ It became an impersonal, distant, uncaring, social and welfare service.
▪ Here in Britain we see a major role as key worker, or care manager, coordinating welfare services as well as health care.
state
▪ The system of state welfare is seen as one of the central means whereby society moves towards the creation of social equality.
▪ One proposal in Indiana would eliminate the state welfare department altogether and place control for welfare with local agencies.
▪ A minority or Liberals attacked the principle of state welfare, arguing that the state should rather encourage self-help and philanthropy.
▪ The provision went on the books last year as part of an overhaul of state welfare law.
▪ The most important benefits were adequate job provision, regular pay rises and state welfare services.
▪ This meant they had less education and continued to depend on state welfare, which was more and more grudgingly supplied.
▪ Comprehensive state welfare also induces dependency, reduces incentives to work, and blunts initiative and enterprise.
▪ Hence, there was considerable tension within the labour movement as to the desirability of state welfare.
system
▪ Make another subtraction for everything else other than spending on the elderly that has to be done in the social welfare system.
▪ The welfare systems introduced in the immediate postwar years built on previous achievements.
▪ The welfare system, runs this view, makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour.
▪ Past immigrants did not move into a society with a social welfare system.
▪ Their mission: to find a policy for tackling poverty as radical as the welfare system founded by Beveridge 50 years ago.
▪ For everyone the extended family was the social welfare system if they became sick, disabled, or old.
worker
▪ The group was made up of an educational psychologist, a psychiatric social worker, an educational welfare worker and myself.
▪ For example, a training program for public welfare workers could be the object of a special grant.
▪ Eight policemen and welfare workers had raided their home - even searching dustbins for Alex.
▪ Child welfare workers joined physicians as the authorities in service to the judiciary.
▪ The full-time welfare workers of the Association also represent individuals at War Pension Tribunals.
▪ Many agencies agreed to hire only a small percentage of welfare workers.
▪ Unhappy endings were more familiar to the welfare workers.
■ VERB
cut
▪ I phone them every time he cuts welfare just to rub it in.
▪ Overall, the bill would cut spending on welfare by about $ 60 billion over six years.
end
▪ If Congress ends welfare benefits, the state then would have to pick up the costs.
▪ Hundreds of thousands end up on welfare rolls.
▪ We are going to end welfare as we know it, balance the budget, have tax cuts for families and children.
promote
▪ Green taxes are a double dividend option: they could cut environmental damage whilst promoting welfare.
▪ The Constitution requires that the federal government promote the general welfare of its people.
▪ The 1980 Child Care Act placed the duty of promoting the welfare of children as the first responsibility of social service departments.
▪ Thus they are not to ask how their decisions can best promote the general welfare.
provide
▪ This general power to provide accommodation on welfare grounds applies only to children under the age of 18 years.
▪ Apart from education, the state does not provide many welfare goods and services to its citizens.
▪ Emphasis is placed on the responsibility of individuals to provide for their own welfare needs and those of their dependants.
▪ He also wants to cut taxes, impose term limits and encourage churches to provide more welfare services.
▪ The State of California shall provide a child welfare building to serve as day care centres for single parents.
▪ We aim to provide and extend a welfare service and raise many thousands of pounds annually to sponsor medical research.
▪ Together they provide the student welfare, typing and photocopying services, along with catering and club bar facilities.
sign
▪ In fact they would declare that no man worth his snot would sign up for welfare.
▪ From the left, he is accused of political cowardice in signing the Republican welfare overhaul with its roiling undercurrents of race.
▪ House Republicans are searching for a way to force Clinton to sign a welfare reform bill.
▪ Clinton signed a minimum-wage increase into law on Tuesday and plans to sign a massive welfare reform bill today.
▪ Jesse Jackson have criticized the president for signing the welfare act.
spend
▪ He announced large increases in spending on social welfare, education and the environment while stressing his commitment to low taxation.
▪ The state will provide $ 2. 9 billion, bringing the total spending on welfare to $ 6. 6 billion.
▪ Pataki is cutting deeply into spending on Medicaid and welfare in order to pay for hefty tax cuts.
▪ Everyone knew that would drive up spending on welfare and homeless shelters.
▪ Those humans who are surviving most successfully, now spend time considering the welfare of other creatures.
▪ For instance, one provision allows them to spend money earmarked for welfare on other programs.
▪ Overall, the bill would cut spending on welfare by about $ 60 billion over six years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the welfare state
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Annabelle stopped getting welfare benefits when her husband landed a minimum-wage job.
▪ Getting people off welfare and into paying jobs is a major national priority.
▪ Raising the minimum wage might make it more difficult for people on welfare to get a job.
▪ The amount of money that the government spends on welfare has halved in the past decade.
▪ We are very concerned about the welfare of U.S. citizens abroad.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As in other cases, the deadweight welfare loss depends on the price elasticity of demand.
▪ Concern for the welfare of the workers, or labour supply, changed.
▪ In human terms, however, welfare reform is definitely risky.
▪ Make another subtraction for everything else other than spending on the elderly that has to be done in the social welfare system.
▪ Since 1985, she has quit two full-time jobs because her net pay was less than her welfare check.
▪ The welfare provisions, meanwhile, require states to put recipients to work and penalize those that fail to do so.