Example sentences for: welfare

How can you use “welfare” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Black employment, home ownership, academic achievement, and college enrollment are up; out-of-wedlock births, violent crime, poverty, and welfare enrollment are down.

  • 2) Differences in states' allotments and changing state welfare enrollments may feed new political clashes (Wisconsin got about six times more money last year than Illinois).

  • To their surprise and dismay, researchers found that when eligible job seekers (welfare recipients and other categories of "disadvantaged" workers) were sent off to potential employers bearing in hand the tax credits or vouchers that labeled them as high-risk cases, they were less likely--far less likely--to find jobs than if they just applied on their own.

  • President Clinton's original notion of "ending welfare as we know it" was to require work and also, if necessary, to supply it (plus training, day care, health care, etc.).

  • A few pages later, of course, he's explaining why Clinton had to sign a welfare bill that no one liked in order to get re-elected (a veto would have meant a "three-point loss").


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