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Recent Examples of welfare state
These recent arrivals have stoked social tensions and raised concerns about the growing strain on the welfare state.
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Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
With Kuwait’s economy shrinking for two straight years and oil prices below breakeven levels, reducing the number of citizens can help ease the burden on the country’s generous welfare state.
—semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025
What took shape instead were President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and the broader suite of Great Society programs—a sweeping expansion of the American welfare state, though one that stopped short of the jobs guarantee that Rustin, King, and Randolph had deemed essential.
—Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Even the most generous welfare states do very little to defray those costs.
—New York Times, 24 July 2025
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Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
With Kuwait’s economy shrinking for two straight years and oil prices below breakeven levels, reducing the number of citizens can help ease the burden on the country’s generous welfare state.
—semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025
What took shape instead were President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and the broader suite of Great Society programs—a sweeping expansion of the American welfare state, though one that stopped short of the jobs guarantee that Rustin, King, and Randolph had deemed essential.
—Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Even the most generous welfare states do very little to defray those costs.
—New York Times, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare state
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Carlson asked the state’s environmental agency about the protocol for discontinuing treatment and was told to keep the state posted.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
18 Sep. 2025
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What To Know While SNAP is funded at the federal level, states manage their own distribution schedules, meaning the exact payment dates differ across the country.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.—
Lloyd Axworthy,
Foreign Affairs,
15 May 2024
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Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.—
Michael M. Phillips,
WSJ,
1 Feb. 2022
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Above all, China fears that its unpredictable and often aggressive client state could spark a military conflict with South Korea and the United States, potentially dragging Beijing into a second Korean War.—
SHUXIAN LUO,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Aug. 2025
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English focused on Poland because the country had a long history of underground revolutionary culture; when the USSR turned independent Poland into a client state known as the People’s Republic of Poland, the Poles already knew how to go underground to fight back.—
Valorie Castellanos Clark,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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Israel, a nation which Kirk was a vocal supporter of, has also emerged as a flashpoint following his death.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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The deal will make Thailand the sixth Southeast Asian nation to possess submarines, with Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, according to Asian Military Review.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission announced its finalists for a new commonwealth flag, but opposition is growing.—
Isabelle Friedman,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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The University of Kentucky says there are about 60 types of mosquitoes that exist in the commonwealth, but not all of them transmit diseases.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
15 Sep. 2025
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In traditional finance, timestamps define settlement windows, payment deadlines, and lien enforcement.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Those cases ended in $15 million and $16 million settlement payments, respectively.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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Rather than going all-in on AI literacy, the question is to calibrate deliberate exposure to mental challenges that build resistance to intellectual dependency.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Dating dinosaur eggs has typically been a challenge due to dependency on indirect methods, such as dating surrounding volcanic rocks.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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Logging later resumed under an archaic mandate and approval processes that a past Cal Fire director and others say still violates key laws such as CEQA and works at cross purposes to the missions of other agencies.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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Last month, the UK government dropped its mandate requiring Apple to provide backdoor access to Americans' iCloud data.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Welfare state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20state. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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