The poverty rate has risen dramatically since the 1996 welfare reform, rising from 12.5 percent to more than 15 percent today.
After college, she was on food stamps for a while and applied for welfare benefits.
Of course, this extends well beyond tax rates and welfare states and into things like patent law.
She fought to survive with welfare checks and public housing until she one day figured out a way to turn her life around.
But the existence of welfare had discredited the moral worth of work.
The master was under the strongest obligation to promote his welfare.
It was regarded as conducive to welfare, and was connected with religion.
Indeed, they are essential to the welfare of every one of the great interests of the West.
You are head of the house now, and have the welfare of your family at heart.
The welfare and happiness, perhaps the very lives of their mothers, their wives, and their children depend on their action.
Government-provided support for those unable to support themselves. In the United States, it is undertaken by various federal, state, and local agencies under the auspices of different programs, the best known of which are Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and food stamps.