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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
• Bohemia is not a lucrative state, and mother and daughter survived on welfare, the largess of friends and family and the meager earnings from Viva’s freelance articles and occasional bit parts in films.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Then DeSantis took aim at California, one of his favorite ideological foils, saying the state allowed non-working people to be on welfare.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The administration’s bet is that government spending on welfare and entitlements can continue to power the U.S. labor market even as job growth in manufacturing, tech, retail and other industries flags.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024