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• Went on welfare and collected all kinds of checks and just sat there and waited for the government to take care of her.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
• And of all the country’s regions, Rotterdam cracks down on welfare fraud the hardest.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
• During the Great Depression, her father put New Deal posters in the window of their home and took in patients on welfare.
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
• Growing up as the child of a single mother on welfare and living in a housing project, there was no piano in my house.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
• In addition to a high infant death rate, the complex had a large number of people on welfare.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• The Wileys, who sometimes relied on welfare, didn’t have much money.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The Netherlands takes a tough stance on welfare fraud, encouraged by populist right-wing politicians.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
• For many in that circle, Birdsong’s predicament echoed that of Ballard, who had ended up on welfare after being fired from the Supremes.
  — Christopher Petkanas, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• Later that season, the series featured John List, who, in 1971, had lost his job and, rather than go on welfare, murdered his entire family.
  — Rachel Monroe, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2021
• As adults, men who had been in the treatment group were more likely to be married, earned some 20% more a year and were 40% less likely to rely on welfare or unemployment insurance.
  — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• Lawmakers imposed time limits and work requirements on welfare, and caseloads fell.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 July 2023
• This could indicate the government’s uneven spending on welfare schemes, as well as its urgency to keep a growing fiscal deficit in check.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2022
• The president has responded by spending heavily on welfare ahead of the elections.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022
• At the same time, government ministers have been laying the ground for more public spending cuts including on welfare payments.
  — Emily Ashton, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
• Today, hardly anyone on welfare is required to pursue employment or an upward path in life.
  — Jake Laturner, National Review, 15 June 2022
• Black, who has two master’s degrees, worked with children on welfare and people in prison earlier in his career and recently opened his own private practice.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Building a story around a white family using a curandero to fend off a grieving Mexican mother on welfare is a pretty bad look.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• More people in jobs means less spending on welfare and more revenue from additional taxpayers, also helping narrow the deficit.
  — Swati Pandey, Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• When her parents separated, her mother went on welfare.
  — Mark Kennedy, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2021
• Instead of talking about big spending on welfare programs, Nixon would talk about private investment in cities, Black businesses, and mortgage assistance.
  — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• Among Democrats, meanwhile, party lawmakers grew increasingly fearful that Biden might agree to new work requirements for people on welfare.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
• The idea that all those ills could be healed with a bipartisan vote on welfare reform or social security privatization was appealing to both men.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 21 July 2021
• Finally, ProPublica revealed, states have hit upon yet another way to skimp on welfare: simply not spending large amounts of their welfare funding at all.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2021
• Albanese was born in Western Sydney to a single mother and grew up on welfare and in public housing before going to university and getting into student politics.
  — Susan Harris Rimmer, CNN, 19 May 2022
• His comments reinforced a negative stereotype popular among conservatives that Black people are lazy and count on welfare instead of their own work, an attempt to set himself apart and advance his career.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• His comments reinforced a negative stereotype popular among conservatives that Black people are lazy and count on welfare instead of their own work, an attempt to set himself apart and advance his career.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• Separately, a coalition of 11 Republican states have sought to intervene to defend the Trump-era public charge rule -- which barred green cards for legal immigrants on temporary visas deemed likely to be reliant on welfare.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 23 May 2021
• Before becoming a bestselling author, Rowling struggled with depression and was living on welfare.
  — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Over several decades, Congress expanded eligibility up the income ladder to the nonpoor who weren’t on welfare.
  — John F. Cogan, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
• Seeking tougher work requirements on welfare recipients and the repeal of federal funds to fight coronavirus and climate change, the conservatives’ wishlist appeared to complicate the work to clinch a deal and avert a looming fiscal calamity.
  — Tony Romm, Jeff Stein and Marianna Sotomayor, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024