| 单词 | welfare state |
| 例句 | As he continued to hold forth in his swampy, East Texas drawl about the numerous follies of the welfare state, I got up and left the table to avoid humiliating myself further. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z By this argument, belief in demonic magic ought not to have declined until there was a general improvement in living standards, and perhaps not until the development of the welfare state. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Inequality is more extreme than ever, global corporations have tightened their grip to the point where national governments look like a sideshow, the welfare state is a husk. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z For Michael Winner, that bumptious remnant from the unregulated days of British film production, it's a needless extension of the welfare state. Where now for the British film industry? 2010-10-07T22:00:00Z He tells us that “distributive ideals” of postcolonial societies “are an almost unstudied topic” and lauds their “zeal” for building welfare states while aiming “to globalize distributive equality.” Did the Crusade for Human Rights Lead to More Inequality? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk Three great revolutions brought about the nation-state, the liberal state and the welfare state. What we wrote… 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z For the more perfect welfare state can flourish only in a well-fenced world that brakes the influx of competing people and products. Fareed Zakaria Looks at Life After the Pandemic 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The Fabian socialism of his father, reinforced by Gray's love of the British welfare state, is all but nostalgia now. Alasdair Gray: 'There isn't much time. Better get on with it' 2012-11-18T00:08:01Z Len McCluskey is right, we have to stop them completing the job that Thatcherism started – the shattering of the welfare state and selling the remnants off to the lowest bidder. Letters: How to fight back against austerity cuts 2010-12-21T00:05:02Z The Swedish word folkhemmet, or “the people’s home,” became an affectionate nickname for the welfare state. How Conservatives Bet Big on Wisconsin and Won 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z But it makes the list because it’s got Oliver, that icon of quintessential Victorian orphanhood, whose “Please sir, I want some more” is a quick, quotable window into the problems of the Victorian welfare state. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z In 1909 Beatrice Webb was to publish her minority report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, which contained a collectivist scheme that amounted to a blueprint for the welfare state. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z As her policies shrunk the welfare state, opposed labor unions and sold off social housing, unemployment and child poverty rates doubled. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Also, “I’m not into the welfare state, I’m not into all those freebie lunch programs.” Adam Carolla, unfunny comedian, thinks women aren’t funny 2012-06-20T15:30:00Z Many of the political reforms enacted from the 1930s through the 1960s—particularly the expansion of the welfare state and the passage of civil rights legislation—attempted to expand equal rights to all people. The rise and fall of “family values”: How “religious freedom” became the rallying cry of the Christian right 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z When that happens it weakens the bonds of solidarity and in the long run erodes the "emotional citizenship" required to sustain welfare states. Why the left is wrong about immigration 2013-03-27T11:59:50Z Her most recent novel was The Little Stranger, a haunted house story set against the postwar decline of the aristocracy and the birth of the welfare state. Sarah Waters 2011-07-13T09:17:12Z The point about the welfare state is that it got us away from such cant. The arts will survive cuts. Some people will struggle to 2010-10-20T11:35:00Z Two-thirds of them went to the UK, attracted by the postwar reconstruction boom and the welfare state put in place by Clement Attlee's Labour government. Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May Mangan ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z Johnson most comes alive in the chapter on his hero Churchill, characterised here as "the unsung founder of the welfare state". Johnson's Life of London by Boris Johnson - review 2012-07-17T07:00:19Z Mangan read an extract from Townsend's book Mr Bevan's Dream, a work on the decline of the welfare state in the 1980s. Author Sue Townsend's funeral held 2014-05-02T16:49:28Z Labour, which flirted with ideas of "community empowerment" in recent years, always feared that localism would undermine the universality of the welfare state and services. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z I don't want to have a serious illness in my late 50s when there's no welfare state left. AL Kennedy and the perils of the pen 2012-08-15T17:30:01Z For all the positives in education and social services achieved from 1997, Labour isn't going to successfully oppose the patent intent of this government to dismantle the welfare state. Letters: How to fight back against austerity cuts 2010-12-21T00:05:02Z What his populism didn’t mean, however, was stripping the welfare state to the studs. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Photograph: Channel 4 The title of Paul Abbott's Shameless ironically alludes to public attitudes towards the welfare state – attitudes which Abbott hoped to challenge through his warm portrait of a northern family underwritten by Westminster. Shameless: when TV shows overstay their welcome 2012-10-10T11:33:37Z When Britons are asked whether they want a stronger welfare state and more equality – the basics of a more hyggelig life – they tend to vote “no” pretty hard. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Modern art owes a lot to Pater, but the welfare state and the socialist tradition owe quite a bit to Ruskin. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z Trump has turned politics into what Guy Debord once called a “perpetual motion machine” built on fear, anxiety, the war on terror, and a full-fledged attack on women, the welfare state, and poor minorities. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z From Bismarck on, nationalists have cherished the welfare state as a means of cementing the loyalties of the working classes. The Real Meaning of the Brexit Debate 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Design was an aesthetic offshoot of the welfare state. Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn – review 2013-05-10T13:00:03Z Related: I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach's welfare state polemic is blunt, dignified and brutally moving Elsewhere, the politics of Cannes manifested themselves in the auteurs’ individual statements. Cannes 2016: Peter Bradshaw's festival verdict and award predictions 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Governments are unconvincingly shoring up expensive welfare states that have failed to match their promise. On the barricades 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z They recognize the need for a robust market economy to pay for generous welfare states. Blue States, Red Diapers, White Hair 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z "Maggie Thatcher" – two fierce trochees set against the gentler iambic pulse of Britain's postwar welfare state. Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it 2013-04-09T05:00:00Z They'll probably end up sponging off the generous German welfare state, which may not be so generous by then, the way things are going … Anyway, it shows our ability to cooperate and create human culture. Horizon: What Makes Us Human? – TV review 2013-07-04T06:00:11Z Our grandparents did not accept this logic when they set up the welfare state and provided for municipal theatres and nationalised industries. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z The welfare state was meant to have banished spivs. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-04T10:00:01Z Ken Loach on The Spirit of '45 - video The Spirit of '45 is Ken Loach's new documentary about the 1945 general election and the creation of the welfare state by Clement Attlee's Labour government. Ken Loach on The Spirit of '45 - video 2013-03-13T14:01:00Z The Danish People’s Party’s perspective is that Denmark is an almost perfect country, with its long history, its generous welfare state, and its cultural distinctiveness. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian This month we are seeing a number of key changes to the welfare state that are in line with the government's promise to help hard-working people. We are building a fair welfare state 2013-04-02T19:30:00Z To me, the introduction of free health care was the first brick laid on the road to the social welfare state. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The second was the gradual dismantling of the welfare state that began under a movie star, Ronald Reagan. Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z Joker counterbalances its inflammatory right-wing ethos with laboured mourning for the welfare state. Why Little Women should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Canadians also have a good welfare state and an outdoorsy lifestyle, but what sets them apart from similar cultures is an emphasis on inclusiveness. Uncovering the secret to collective happiness | Helen Russell 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Now if Sarah Bunting were still around, I would point out to her that, even without benefit of a welfare state, no one enjoys better job security than the Bateses. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: In the Finale, Mary Meets Mr. Handsome, With a Who Could-Care-Less Attitude 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z All due credit to your forebears for the NHS and the welfare state. Dear Ed Miliband … seek your future in post-scarcity SF 2012-10-11T10:24:26Z His other example was Britain's post-1945 welfare state, of which he and I were grateful beneficiaries. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z Read your Keynes, read your Marx, read up on how and why the welfare state came about. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z With chronic joblessness, an upswing in poverty and a grand undoing of the social welfare state, the Style Council — backed by their historically punk-grown politics — seemed uniquely suited to coat some agitation in velvet. Almost anarchy: The Style Council and the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z And all for a movie with some vivid simulated sex encased in a screed about the Swedish welfare state. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z Raised Catholic but now proudly agnostic, Morris fervently — or since he is played by favorite-son Clooney, flintily — embraces abortion rights, the welfare state and the end of the internal combustion engine. The Ides of March: Ladies and Gentlemen, President George Clooney 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z Can one find the origins of the welfare state in postmillennialist eschatology? The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z And working-class political parties were crucial in forcing 20th-century European governments to create welfare states, while the social compromises of postwar Europe owed much to elite fears that workers would otherwise vote Communist. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z Nobody wants to be an adult anymore, and every so often someone writes an article blaming Hollywood, attachment parenting, global capitalism or the welfare state for this catastrophe. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z You could almost see hygge as the private, intimate analogue of the public, civic Danish welfare state. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Picture Post played an important part in developments that led to the establishment of the welfare state through its sympathetic depiction of social inequality. Unsung hero of photography Thurston Hopkins turns 100 2013-04-12T14:56:00Z The daughter of Labour Party activists, Ms. Whiteread came of age as Margaret Thatcher’s government was undertaking a wholesale transformation of British society — breaking down its welfare state and privatizing swathes of public housing. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Reagan offered taxpayers outraged by the Great Society and the growth of the welfare state a potent mix of indignation and absolution. Purpose and worth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The SNP takes pride in running a more generous welfare state than the rest of the United Kingdom and has launched blistering attacks on welfare reforms and cuts initiated from London. Tale of two towns as Scottish independence shows social divide 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z In this way, the welfare state was stealthily unwound to the advantage of a handful of entrepreneurs and shareholders. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z He seems little interested in how Sweden’s welfare state was shaped by an innovative Social Democratic Party enacting policies that broadened support for egalitarianism. Did the Crusade for Human Rights Lead to More Inequality? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Denmark is famously family-friendly, with 52 weeks’ paid parental leave for a new baby and a generous welfare state paying three-quarters of the costs of childcare , enabling 85% of mothers to return to work. ‘There’s no stigma’: why so many Danish women are opting to become single mothers 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The assault on the welfare state isn't a neutral act of fiscal prudence. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z “There is no better argument for a permanent welfare state than watching your government desperately try to build one when it’s already too late,” he said. John Oliver: 'Things need to change and not go back to normal' 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z It could be a home to runaway financial capitalism, and to a responsible welfare state. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Not only did the series suggest support for the British welfare state, it created offshore opportunities for its American writers. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z She is a product of the welfare state herself. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Political reporter Jonathan Chait suggests this explains Romney's hardline approach to the welfare state, trying to get in the changes while he can. Riven by factionalism, the Republican party looks hell-bent on self-destruction 2012-08-28T19:08:50Z In fact, his path is determined by the absence of a welfare state and a rolling back of hard-won labour rights. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z In his road-building projects that employed the poor lie the foundations of the welfare state. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Labour won a thumping Commons majority and used it to introduce the welfare state, nationalise key industries and guarantee full employment. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z A: There the issues are less about rising inequality and more about the future of the welfare state and the future of public debt. Book Talk: Game-changer or Marx revisited? A new tale of capital 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z "People don't want to believe that the welfare state is now sponsoring the poverty it's designed to eradicate. People think it's a horrible caricature, but it's not." Poverty TV: Hit UK show stirs welfare debate 2014-01-23T14:07:38Z By the time he was 13, he was so much trouble to both his family and society that Denmark’s welfare state essentially made him its ward, shuttling him through a series of institutions. Young Immigrant in Denmark Lashes Out in Verse 2014-04-02T17:00:39Z Liberals invoke the New Deal today as a model for the future while conservatives view it as a harbinger of the welfare state, and federal financing of the arts has always been mired in contention. Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z The purpose of this capacious definition of socialism, of course, is to tar the welfare state with the deservedly compromised reputation of central planning regimes. An Argument That Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Wasn’t So Great 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Dante's reverence for the imperial papacy made Ezra Pound and TS Eliot think of him as a proto-fascist; for Wilson he bracingly refutes the milky commiseration that sustains our expensive welfare state. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z Furthermore, welfare science in agriculture is focused on identifying and responding to poor welfare states, and not to actually optimizing happiness or quality of life. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z I was a beneficiary of the welfare state. ‘Being poor is not inevitable or due to personal flaws. I know, I’ve been there’ | Mary O’Hara 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z In the 1970s, deindustrialization pushed an ailing and aging population into unemployment, toward the welfare state — always tentative, in the American case — for their survival. How Health Care Became the Big Industry in Steel City 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z How is it that a region known for its outlaws became so dependent on pharmaceuticals and the welfare state? Mercy and grace: Reclaiming the family home lost to my father's addiction 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z He admits that what he calls the progressive dilemma – the conflict between diversity and national solidarity, best expressed in the welfare state – was "a conveniently controversial idea for the editor of a small political magazine". The British Dream by David Goodhart; The Diversity Illusion by Ed West – review 2013-04-14T08:00:02Z The Austrian economists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries endorsed progressive taxation and the welfare state, and Schumpeter even served briefly as finance minister in his country’s first socialist-led government, in 1919. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z These journalistic pieces by the best-selling economist examine the failure of the modern welfare state to address intensifying inequality, calling for governments to take more strenuous measures. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z At the time, the ready availability of jobs and a relatively well-funded welfare state suggested capitalism was actually doing just dandy. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z This grim reality collides with an increasingly punitive welfare state. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Partial success allowed the post-war Labour government to fund its welfare state and National Health Service. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z American libertarians such as Charles Murray have long argued that a basic income could be used to do away with the welfare state altogether. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z It will restore to our welfare state the values upon which it was built. We are building a fair welfare state 2013-04-02T19:30:00Z So assaults on the very concept of the welfare state are dressed up in talk of making people less passive, involving us in our society. The arts will survive cuts. Some people will struggle to 2010-10-20T11:35:00Z Some of these new converts have alighted upon the basic income as an answer to our fragmenting welfare state. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z They simply have no idea of what benefits the welfare state has to offer. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z Their answers had nothing to do with differences of the welfare state, at all. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z Instead, Obama sat on the stool and squandered far too much of his presidency trying to make nice with people who were determined to destroy him and the welfare state he should have been protecting. Obama nostalgia matters: He’s consequential because he’s good and because he asked that we be good, too 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Their policies are dismantling libraries, student hopes, arts budgets, and the welfare state. Theatre Uncut is set for a grand finale, but the anger that inspired it will linger 2011-03-17T17:55:49Z "I want to offer people a real choice, not a false choice between a warfare state and a welfare state," Ravenel said. 'Southern Charm' TV personality, felon to run for U.S. Senate 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z This remains the core of his argument – that human beings favour their own sort and are suspicious of outsiders, so mass immigration fragments society, strains the welfare state and loosens the ties of the nation. The British Dream by David Goodhart; The Diversity Illusion by Ed West – review 2013-04-14T08:00:02Z For all the public support that welfare states and egalitarian urban-planning policies enjoy in Europe, many governments’ actual implementation of programs too often occurs without much input from racially marginalized and low-income people themselves. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z Millennia before the welfare state was ever dreamt of, kings and emperors faced one great expense: battle. Defenders of the state: why we should care about army cuts 2010-10-04T13:45:00Z With “A Night to Remember” the welfare state Britain of 1958 looks back on the decaying imperial kingdom of 1912, and the film is full of pointed observations about class. DVD: Titanic Film ?A Night to Remember? From Criterion 2012-04-01T03:45:43Z Much of the American right is now vocally if not avowedly Thatcherite in its glorification of the market, its demonization of the welfare state and its hostility to public-sector unions. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z Denmark, meanwhile, is a perfect example of a country trying to protect its national identity and welfare state while confronted with the poor, uneducated and often culturally distinct refugees pouring across its borders. A Grand Tour of the Crisis in Europe 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Most Western democracies maintain welfare states far more generous than anything proposed by Johnson, and there are still poor people in Europe. An Argument That Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Wasn’t So Great 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Growing up in the welfare state, it was possible to believe, and to find evidence, that class division and inequality were diminishing and might one day be gone. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z Charity, the dole – or nowadays the ever-diminishing top-ups to low pay from the welfare state – are kept just high enough to prevent destitution and revolution. Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z Readers of this paper, fans of the arts, not to mention the welfare state, may well think hacking at the military budget is a good idea. Defenders of the state: why we should care about army cuts 2010-10-04T13:45:00Z The first was the creation of a welfare state under Franklin D. Roosevelt, a development that established a new relationship between government and the governed and crystallized differences among conservatives, liberals, and radicals. Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z That honor went to Nevada Senator Pat McCarran, a silver-pompadoured scourge of the welfare state who had been holding hearings on the question of "Who Lost China?" for a year before McCarthy was elected. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Here, as well as jokes about hummus and childcare, you'll find shrinking universities, attacks on the welfare state, youth unemployment – and, of course, Christmas, rolling around each year in a blizzard of grumbling and enchantment. Christmas gifts 2012: the best fiction 2012-11-29T08:30:02Z Call me churlish, but that sounds like a shout-out welfare state to me. Sweating Through Decades for the Teacher’s Admiring Nod 2012-10-19T21:42:53Z Praise is offered for his role in modernising the Liberal party, and for the pensions and national insurance schemes with which Lloyd George paved the way for Britain's modern welfare state. The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George by Roy Hattersley 2010-10-02T13:34:00Z He derides Arthur Schlesinger for talking such nonsense as that the best defense against Communism may be the social welfare state. Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z And Beatrice Webb, of whom Ms. Nasar writes: “No one had a greater claim to the invention of the idea of a government safety net — indeed, the modern welfare state” than she did. Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z America's second-rate welfare state does much better in directly serving seniors than anyone else, so it makes an inviting target for conservatives. Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Desmond cites the many ways government provides a welfare state that guards fortunes rather than expanding opportunity for those in need. Inequality: ‘Time for a wealth tax or state income tax’ 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Cameron said the governor’s policies have led to “bloating the welfare state.” Cameron touts income tax cuts, Medicaid work rules for some able-bodied adults in his economic pitch 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Once in power, Khan embarked on his plan of building a welfare state modelled on what he said was an ideal system dating back to the Islamic world some 14 centuries earlier. Imran Khan, cricket star turned Pakistan premier, arrested again 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Oakeshott was horrified by this, and was also disturbed by the postwar British welfare state; this was the impetus for his denunciation of political rationalism. There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z The professor added that there was a "lack of awareness around the welfare state that they can access and have a right to access". NI health: Sick children's parents face bills of £350 a day, report says 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Moreover, she said, she had a hatred of a Conservative government which, inspired by “that dreadful woman Margaret Thatcher,” seemed to be dismembering the welfare state the Labour Party had created after the war. Glenda Jackson, Oscar-Winning Actress Turned Politician, Dies at 87 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z In turn, at least for the thirty years following the war, neither side deviated significantly from support for social democracy and the welfare state. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Germany had such a program for several decades, and Britain had already enacted many programs as part of its welfare state that the United States was slow to adopt. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He warned that if the Western democracies adopted economic planning and welfare states, they would insensibly lurch down the slippery slope towards tyranny. There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z For reasons deeply rooted in our culture, the American brand of capitalism has always been tilted toward dynamism, with freer markets and smaller welfare states. The power of American capitalism | David Brooks 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z But if we really want a more robust welfare state, or even to sustain the welfare state we’ve already promised, that probably requires higher taxes from most of the rest of us, too. Opinion | Sorry, Democrats. You can’t pay for everything solely by soaking the rich. 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In turn, Christian Democracy was an amalgam of social conservatism with a now-anachronistic willingness to provide welfare state provisions. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Lingering reservations about the welfare state and the cost of expansion are giving way to arguments about Medicaid as an engine for economic growth and a lifeline for struggling hospitals. Will North Carolina Be the ‘Beginning of the End’ of the Medicaid Expansion Fight? 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z But only since the Great Society initiatives of the 1960s, which expanded immigration and aid, has mass migration coincided with a welfare state. Safety Net Barriers Add to Child Poverty in Immigrant Families 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Bartels combines a broad view of European opinion dynamics — on economic crisis, immigration, the welfare state and confidence in government — with concise considerations of specific examples whose significance, he argues, has largely been misconstrued. What crisis of democracy? Scholar Larry Bartels says the real crisis is corrupt leaders 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The big issue during the campaign has been Finland's public debt and how the country's prized welfare state can be financed in the future. Finland election: Three-way race as Sanna Marin fights for survival 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z While willing to support the welfare state in general, Christian Democrats were staunchly opposed to the more far-reaching demands of labor unions. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The spoils of Empire; the unifying experience of defying Hitler's Germany; and the creation of the welfare state had all bound Scotland tightly into the union. Where next for Scotland as the Nicola Sturgeon era ends? 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z This is needed to "resuscitate our economy and protect our freedoms" and help build a "generous welfare state as an essential part of creating a fairer future for all of us," she will argue. Welsh Lib Dem leader Jane Dodds calls for more generous society 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z What is the conventional wisdom about attitudes toward the welfare state in Europe, and how did that compare with the actual data? What crisis of democracy? Scholar Larry Bartels says the real crisis is corrupt leaders 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z One of the things that blew me away was how utterly imbalanced our welfare state is — and I’ve been on the housing beat for several years. Matthew Desmond wants to make you uncomfortable about poverty in America 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Most center-right parties outside of Britain have been less willing to truly gut the welfare state than was Thatcher and her conservatives, but the general focus on the market remains their defining characteristic overall. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Many on the right would still like to obliterate the welfare state, but they’re deeply defensive about it. The right’s obsession with wokeness is a sign of weakness 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z If we have more than doubled government spending on poverty and achieved so little, one reason is that the American welfare state is a leaky bucket. Why Poverty Persists in America 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z There's been an ongoing sense of crisis about the amount of resources that European countries are pouring into their welfare states, especially as the populations age. What crisis of democracy? Scholar Larry Bartels says the real crisis is corrupt leaders 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The guard rails of justice, compassion, the welfare state, politics, democratic values and the institutions that nourish them are under threat of disappearing. Historical amnesia in the age of capitalist apocalypse — and how to overcome it 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Thus, in an ironic historical paradox, some of the first “welfare state” provisions in the world were passed by a conservative government to weaken socialism. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z "By the time his presidency is over we could have 12 to 14 million terrorists, fentanyl dealers, child traffickers and an entire welfare state entering our country," Miller said. “I’m not going to sit there and listen to him lie”: Pro-Trump Republican boycotts Biden SOTU speech 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z But he was unable to make large-scale, long-term cuts to many of the programs that make up the American welfare state. Why Poverty Persists in America 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z In fact, Britain now spends more on its welfare state, faces strikes across many crucial sectors and is experiencing deepening wage stagnation. Opinion | There’s a remedy for Britain’s problems: Rejoin the E.U. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z It is amplified by a Republican Party devoted to destroying the welfare state and imposing a Christian nationalist autocracy. Historical amnesia in the age of capitalist apocalypse — and how to overcome it 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z It was within the commitment to social democracy that the modern welfare state came into being. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the key insights driving the creation of the modern welfare state was an adaptation of the older republican idea that self-government could not be sustained in the absence of economic security and independence. But wait, there’s more, to Kevin McCarthy’s deal with Republican radicals 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z In the twentieth century, with the rise of the idea of the welfare state, feral cats were recognized as less of a nuisance and more of a public health menace. Why "trap-neuter-release" programs for feral cats may do more harm than good 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Attacks on the welfare state and public goods are rarely analyzed as part of the unchecked drive for profit under a savage neoliberal capitalism. Fascist politics, the return of antisemitism and the "disconnected present" 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z But historically the idea gained little traction in the United States, where faith in upward mobility held greater sway and racial divisions slowed the growth of the welfare state. The Expanded Child Tax Credit Is Gone. The Battle Over It Remains. 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The principle behind the welfare state is that it is impossible to be happy and productive without certain basic needs being met. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Qatar’s oil and gas wealth has generated a social contract where citizens benefit from a cradle-to-grave welfare state and political rights come after state paternalism. Culture clash? Conservative Qatar preps for World Cup party 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The party talks a great deal about the rise of crime, gang violence and abuse of the country’s generous welfare state. Opinion | Italy and Sweden show why Biden must fix the immigration system 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z "The president's projects must be consolidated, I share the president's vision of a Mexico with justice, and a Mexico where the welfare state must play a fundamental part in development." Mexico City mayor eyes history in bid to be first female president 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “We are proposing a redistribution of the effort, among those who have the most, to fund the welfare state, which is everybody’s,” Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in a speech Friday. Spain plans tax hike for millionaires to help those in need 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Instead, the center-left parties came to be the custodians of the welfare state while belatedly joining the center-right in favoring market economics in the private sector. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Andersson said it was obvious that the social democratic movement, which is based on ideals of creating an equal society and a strong welfare state, remains strong in Sweden. With no clear winner, Sweden in a limbo after vote 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The conservative party promotes a market economy, lower taxes and a smaller role for government in a country with a generous welfare state supported by high taxes. EXPLAINER: What to know ahead of Sweden’s election Sunday 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats, who campaigns on a platform to improve the quality of Sweden's welfare state, adopt more renewable energy and fight crime, hopes to extend her party's eight-year rule. Factbox: Polls ahead of Sweden's election for parliament 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Her party is a defender of Sweden’s generous welfare state but its support has been declining for years. Sweden holds election amid concerns over energy bills, crime 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z With the welfare state in place, many people were willing to spend on non-essentials, buying on credit and indulging in the host of new consumer items like cars, appliances, and fashion. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The rise of trade unions, the collective provision of services and the creation of a universal welfare state signalled a sea-change in the organisation of state and economy. Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The moment history stops 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The old consensus that buttressed New Deal programs and the welfare state was attacked as enabling criminal Black youth, "welfare queens" and other alleged social parasites. Can we stop pretending that America is a functioning democracy? 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats, who campaigns on a platform to improve the quality of Sweden’s welfare state, adopt more renewable energy and fight crime, hopes to extend her party’s eight-year rule. Factbox-Polls ahead of Sweden's election for parliament 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Diverting cash to support households will leave less for structural reforms needed to support the shift to a "green" economy, to rebuild the welfare state and to meet a skills shortage in the labour market. Analysis: Sweden's cost of living crisis spooks voters ahead of election 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Of note is the fact that the Seleucid cities represented the first major experiment in what we now call the welfare state. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z He swept to power in 2018, promising to build a “new Pakistan” — an Islamic welfare state based on opportunity, justice and independence for the impoverished nation of 220 million people. Pakistan charges former leader Imran Khan under terrorism act 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z The former cricket captain, now styling himself as a pious anti-poverty reformer, spoke of his dream of building an "Islamic welfare state" where wealth was shared. Imran Khan: The cricket hero bowled out as Pakistan's PM 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Since the late 1970s, a form of predatory capitalism, or what can be called neoliberalism, has waged war on the welfare state, public goods and the social contract. Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z The welfare of greyhounds, the future of inheritance tax, the welfare state, the future of the UK union, the questions flowed. Truss courts Johnson loyalists as Sunak faces jibes 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z They have various underfunded and decentralized forms of welfare state provision, like unemployment insurance or Medicaid. How the states went nuts: Democratic backsliding in state capitals — and how to defeat it 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z In Kuwait’s lavish welfare state, the cost per gallon is nearly four times less. High UAE gas prices stand out where cheap fuel was the norm 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Over the past six years, Saudi Arabia introduced painful austerity measures to lessen the financial weight on the historically generous welfare state that the government can no longer afford as the population rises. Wealthy Mideast nations boost spending to protect citizens from inflation 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z So why suddenly are they all for a socialist welfare state? Watch what Republicans say about Roe: GOP fear of backlash on abortion grows 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z “A global pandemic, social unrest, a divisive election, a tragic day in our nation’s capital — and an administration seemingly every day driving our economy into the abyss of a socialist welfare state.” Pence Navigates a Possible White House Run, and a Fraught Political Moment 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Why don’t we have a generous welfare state with national health insurance, universal child care, and guaranteed sick leave and vacation time? Review | An ode to the power of CEOs and capitalism to cure America’s ills 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The tiny Emirati population benefits from a generous welfare state that helps with everything: free education, health care and housing, grants for marriage, scholarships to foreign universities and well-paid government jobs. High UAE gas prices stand out where cheap fuel was the norm 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Across these decades, he writes, Western societies built robust welfare states, invested heavily in education and other public goods, and considerably narrowed economic inequality — and thus the gap in life chances — between rich and poor. Review | Thomas Piketty’s optimistic blueprint for easing global inequality 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z His ambitious overhaul of the country’s welfare state was just beginning to kick in and he had won plaudits among voters for opposing the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Russian ties shred German ex-leader Schroeder’s standing 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the welfare state just as "the emphasis is now on individual solutions to socially produced problems." A new age of fascist politics brings a war on youth — but young people are ready to resist 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Chronically dependent on the not-so-tender mercies of a shrinking welfare state, they are doubly stigmatized: for their illness; and because they show few signs of reform or recovery. Q&A: He's studied mental illness for 50 years. Here are all the things we're doing wrong 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The Democrats' hypocrisy and stupidity are the fertilizer for Christian fascism, which is bankrolled by the most retrograde forces of capitalism in exchange for the destruction of the welfare state. Jesus, endless war and the irresistible rise of American fascism 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The legislation revealed deep divisions within the Republican-led chamber, where most GOP members voted against what they described as an “expansion of the welfare state” even as Republican leaders joined with Democrats to support it. Divided Missouri Senate backs food stamp use at restaurants 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “Someone needed to point out the deterioration of our moral fiber, the proliferation and increasing acceptance of drugs and crime, the expansion of the welfare state.” Orrin Hatch, Seven-Term Senator and a Republican Force, Dies at 88 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Necropolitics is now driven by a white supremacist Republican Party that bleeds life from the social contract, the welfare state and the lives of those considered disposable, especially children. A new age of fascist politics brings a war on youth — but young people are ready to resist 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Parliamentary elections in June will define the make-up of the government Macron must rely on to see through reform plans that would be an unprecedented shake-up of France’s welfare state. Analysis-In troubled France, no honeymoon for re-elected Macron 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z There was a problem with the old welfare state: It had gotten big and sclerotic and there was a necessary correction needed. Francis Fukuyama on Putin, Trump and why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z “This is the expansion of the welfare state,” said Republican state Sen. Rick Brattin, who is running for Congress this year. Divided Missouri Senate backs food stamp use at restaurants 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The prime minister stressed that the British people are welcoming and generous but that illegal immigration put an unsustainable burden on the country’s schools, health-care system and welfare state. Britain to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda to cut illegal sea crossings 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Speaking of his own manifesto, Macron said: "Do you want a France that speaks of full employment and is serious about financing its welfare state, its pensioners, its schools, hospitals and public services?" Macron heads to blue-collar France in search of more votes 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z But analysts said that he also over-promised, backing incoherent, often contradictory policies: He supported a deregulated, free-market economy but also a welfare state. Pakistan Parliament Ousts Imran Khan as Prime Minister 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z The legislature similarly carries the mantle of preserving Kuwait’s lavish welfare state, believing the government lacks accountability. Kuwait, among world’s hottest places, lags on climate action 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Sufficiency — not strict economic parity — is what a welfare state, or any good society, aspires to provide. Review | Twisting Bill Clinton’s economic record to blame him for inequality 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Critics say his policies threaten the French welfare state. Macron to seek 2nd term in France’s April presidential vote 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Historians have compared the Incan system to a type of socialism or a modern welfare state. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “While America is indeed the land of opportunity, it’s not the land of the welfare state,” Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich told The Washington Times. DHS eyes more welfare for legal immigrants as Supreme Court hears challenge 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z After that, things quieted down — because, I think, of the temporary lift of an enlarged welfare state. Do Today’s Unions Have a Fighting Chance Against Corporate America? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The real goal of Mr. Biden’s “families plan” was not middle-class support but expansion of the welfare state. Biden’s ‘Checks for Children’ scam: Designed to overturn welfare reform 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Oxfam recommends clawing back the tax gains that have been given to the rich and reversing the attack on workers' rights, unions and the welfare state. In an age of fascist counterrevolution, our biggest problem may be the death of ethics 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z It is lauded for its lack of corruption and generous welfare state and is deeply Western, with strong partnerships, if not membership, in NATO. Finns don’t wish ‘Finlandization’ on Ukraine — or anyone 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Historically, some private companies have occasionally supported goals like health and safety legislation to protect workers or the expansion of the welfare state through unemployment insurance and Social Security. Opinion | I Wouldn’t Bet on the Kind of Democracy Big Business Is Selling Us 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Now it could prove a burden, as undereducated and underemployed people in a welfare state like India end up consuming a larger share of resources, from free medicine to food subsidies. India Schools Stay Closed, and Hopes Fade for a Lost Generation 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Nick French, in an article in Jacobin, draws on the work of the sociologist Walter Korpi, who examined the rise of the Swedish welfare state in his book "The Democratic Class Struggle." America's new class war: Organized labor is back 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The government that Yanagihara imagines feeds off the interaction of disease and dread to suck up ever more power unto itself, creating “a comprehensive welfare state.” Review | The remarkable worlds of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘To Paradise’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Boric’s ambitious agenda focusing on social justice, addressing age-old inequalities and implementing a welfare state resonated in particular with young people. Former student activist wins Chile’s presidential election 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z "Right now, Democrats have a rare opportunity to permanently expand the American welfare state," Levitz continued. Dems face 2022 nightmare if student debt payments restart and child tax credit ends, critics say 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Manchin is a key swing vote in the Senate who could derail Democrats’ hopes of passing the bill which would expand the U.S. welfare state. Biden to meet Manchin to persuade him on $1.9 trillion social spending bill 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Sometimes he supported tax increases, which led Mr. Gingrich to brand him “the tax collector for the welfare state.” Bob Dole, Old Soldier and Stalwart of the Senate, Dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z It was Gingrich who, angered by Mr. Dole’s support for tax increases in the 1980s to reduce the deficit, called him the “tax collector for the welfare state.” Robert J. Dole, longtime GOP leader who sought presidency 3 times, dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich branded him “the tax collector for the welfare state.” Senate leader, presidential candidate Bob Dole dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The Social Democrats’ aims of strengthening the welfare state and the environmental policies of the Greens have not sat easily with the Free Democrats and their aversion to tax hikes. German parties form new government led by center-left Olaf Scholz, marking end of Merkel era 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “We will move toward the creation of a welfare state which doesn’t discriminate between rich and poor,” he declared in the final televised debate of the campaign. Shaken by protests, battered by the coronavirus, a divided Chile picks a new president 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Omitting almost the entire welfare state from the poverty measure creates the misperception that the U.S. has a meager welfare system. Government supports would grow to $76,400 per poor family 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Aside from its many legislative proposals defending salaries, pensions and the welfare state, it has championed civil rights. Factbox: Parties and leaders contesting Portugal's snap election 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “If all we’re offering is a cheaper welfare state or slightly less bad mandates, we will lose,” Ms. Haley says in the prepared remarks. Nikki Haley chastises conservatives ‘who should know better’ about socialism 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “Countries with a more robust welfare state tax everybody a bit more, rather than just the rich,” said Joshua McCabe, senior fellow for policy and welfare at the Niskanen Center, a center-right think tank. Democrats move to finalize new ‘billionaire’ tax proposal, targeting 700 wealthiest Americans as key source of revenue for spending plan 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “Countries with a more robust welfare state tax everybody a bit more, rather than just the rich,” said Joshua McCabe, senior fellow of policy and welfare at the Niskanen Center, a center-right think tank. Democrats move to finalize new ‘billionaire’ tax plan, targeting 700 wealthiest Americans as key source of revenue for spending plan 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z If made permanent, as they are now trying to do, it would be the second-largest expansion of the welfare state in U.S. history. Work matters, despite what congressional Democrats think 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Dubbed “human infrastructure,” the massive spending bill is poised to significantly expand the welfare state. ‘Buying people out of poverty’: GOP blasts Biden for looser rules on new entitlement programs 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Former Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow called the social spending bill the “largest expansion of the social welfare state since LBJ’s Great Society,” adding that “none of these programs have a single work requirement.” Biden accused of exacerbating labor shortage with ‘far-left socialist agenda’ 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z This is likely to present a problem for the Democratic Party, which is trying to pass a cradle-to-grave expansion of the welfare state. Opinion | A new problem for Democrats: Americans suddenly want smaller government after all 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Democrats want what they imagine to be a European-style welfare state but blanch at taxing the middle class at European levels to pay for it — which you’d have to do. Column: The problem isn't raising taxes, it's spending, spending, spending 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The largest single reduction to the welfare state in British history, it’s forecast to push half a million more people below the poverty line, including 200,000 children. Opinion | Britain Is Heading Into a Nightmarish Winter 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Together, those three initiatives would represent a substantial expansion of the American welfare state, as well as a significant step toward Biden’s goals for combating climate change. White House confronts grueling choices as it debates major cuts to Biden economic plan 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z They favored strong trade unions and welfare states with generous education and health care systems. Do Germany’s Election Results Signal a Left Turn for Europe? 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z "More or less, what Joe Biden and the Democrats are looking to do is create a welfare state in which you have dependency from cradle to grave," Short said. American Families Plan will weaken the American family, says mother of two 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Williams believed a reliance on massive government transfer programs - the welfare state - robbed the Black community of autonomy and action, a position strongly supported by Mr. Squires and Mr. Bradley. ‘Heroic modern Black intellectuals’: Woodson Center adds to ‘1776 Unites’ curriculum 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The big bill would make a historic expansion of the welfare state with an array of new benefits for childcare, healthcare and education, as well as aggressive climate change initiatives. House progressives poised to sink Biden’s infrastructure bill with help of Republicans 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Jayapal, chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said they already backed down from the $6 trillion price tag they wanted for a bigger welfare state. Biden’s infrastructure bill still a bridge too far in rift between progressive, moderate House Dems 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The moderates are right to point out that a newly expanded welfare state should flow along the grain of American values and not against it. Moderates and progressives, unite! 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Of course, America can afford to become a major welfare state, and I, for one, am willing to pay for it. Opinion | Should the U.S. Expand the Social Safety Net? 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z He also admonished moderates for pushing back on the $3.5 trillion package that is the most ambitious expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society of the 1960s. Pelosi’s backroom arm-twisting ratchets up on Dems ahead of votes on big spending bills 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z "When the welfare state was first created it was actually designed to be at 20% of median income; it's now at about 12%, which is very, very low," she said. Universal credit: Tory peer wants to force Commons vote on cut 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z But it’s not nearly sufficient to pay for the generous welfare state Democrats want to build. Opinion | Despite AOC’s infamous dress, Democrats are getting cold feet on actually taxing the rich 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The increase to the corporate tax, for example, will put the U.S. rate well above other nations, including Scandinavian welfare states like Sweden that taxes corporations at 20.6%. Biden’s ‘long overdue’ tax hikes span from Wall Street to Main Street, from superwealthy to smokers 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “Coming out of a pandemic, the last thing Americans need are higher prices, fewer jobs, and the largest expansion of our welfare state in our lifetimes,” he said. Newt Gingrich: GOP will win in 2022 by targeting Democrats as ‘big government socialists’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In its 158-year history the Social Democrats have been a formidable political force, fighting for workers’ rights, battling fascism and helping to shape Germany’s postwar welfare state. Olaf Scholz Is Running as the Next Angela Merkel, and It Seems to Be Working 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z One major difference between the social economy that Mr. Biden and congressional Democrats hope to create and the welfare state in Europe is how it would be paid for. From Cradle to Grave, Democrats Move to Expand Social Safety Net 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The Social Democrats, who helped build Sweden’s robust welfare state, favor strengthening the system. Sweden prime minister’s abrupt resignation upends the country and its politics 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Of all the proposed tax hikes to help pay for Mr. Biden’s bigger welfare state, this one would have the greatest impact and rake in an estimated $800 billion in tax revenue. Biden’s new ‘death tax’ threatens family farms, small businesses 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z To a man, they insisted it was caused by FDR's and LBJ's "welfare state" policies and the "big spending" associated with them, even though that was a complete lie. The crisis of neoliberalism: America arrives at one of history’s great crossroads 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s an outcome that might not have been envisaged by the architects of Sweden’s welfare state in the 1950s. How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z But to Republicans, it would mean that 4.4 million more people would get their health coverage through the welfare state, leading to an increase in government-run health care. Democrats push for a new health care program as they ready to ram a $3.5T package through Congress 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The ideas being discussed would be “one of the largest expansions of the welfare state in history,” said Matt Dickerson, the director of federal budget studies at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Dems’ ‘human infrastructure’ plans packed with federal payouts aimed at fixing racial disparities 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Unforgiving capitalism would be replaced by a welfare state, he predicted, with universal education, guaranteed incomes and supported retirement. Opinion | The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z All these issues should be fought over within a broader concern for political, personal and economic rights, which suggests defunding the military-industrial complex and increasing provisions of the welfare state. Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The administrative and economic efficiency of such taxes is one reason that European welfare states tend to raise a lot of revenue from consumption-based, value-added taxes, and comparatively little from wealth taxes. Opinion | Raising taxes on the wealthy won’t magically fix our inequality problem 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Beyond simply pointing out the hypocrisy or blind spots in politicians' rhetoric, I wanted to investigate the relationship between a retrenching welfare state and growing penal system. The deeper history of "defund": How the "get tough" policies of the '70s and '80s led to disaster 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z As evoked by the name, diseases of despair are profoundly political, in that nation-states with poor or non-existent welfare states see such disease more commonly. More and more Americans are dying from "diseases of despair," according to a new study 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z "They want a welfare state. That’s why all their policies increase the welfare state." Tyrus: No one has a best-selling book called ‘How I Made it to the Top with my Government Checks’ 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z The plan, part of his $1.8 trillion “American Families Plan,” which vastly extends the welfare state, would save most families about $14,800 a year on child care, according to the White House. ‘Child care as critical infrastructure’: Biden’s plan shifts families’ bills to taxpayers 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z French universal health care works, as does the welfare state. The Entangling, Ever-Extending Labyrinth of French Lockdowns 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z I also spend a lot of time in the book talking about the importance of pre-existing political conditions, particularly the shape of the U.S. welfare state. The deeper history of "defund": How the "get tough" policies of the '70s and '80s led to disaster 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Most of that legislation was advertised as a temporary, targeted response to the immediate crisis, rather than any sort of lasting transformation of the welfare state. Opinion | Biden has an opportunity to ensure an FDR-like legacy, and he might blow it 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z They want a specific "Scottish approach" to social security, underpinned by what they call the "broad shoulders" of the UK welfare state. Scottish election 2021: Scottish Conservative policies explained 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Americans may increasingly appreciate the shared benefits of a robust welfare state — but they don’t see funding those programs as a shared responsibility. Opinion | How Biden’s tax pledge undercuts his own initiatives 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Poverty is the result of an economy producing more and more low-wage jobs combined with an extremely weak social welfare state. Perspective | Five myths about poverty 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The paltry, privatized, racially stratified social welfare system impeded efforts to address inequality through the welfare state. The deeper history of "defund": How the "get tough" policies of the '70s and '80s led to disaster 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Implemented after the war by Labour, the report's recommendations laid the foundation of the modern welfare state and the NHS was also born. Coronavirus: Is it time for a new Beveridge report? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z It takes its "spirit and the ambition" from William Beveridge's 1942 report, which laid the foundations for the post-war welfare state, identifying the five great challenges as "want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness". New children's commissioner pledges to 'rebuild' childhood 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Democrats sometimes point to Sweden or Denmark as examples of generous, successful welfare states. Opinion | How Biden’s tax pledge undercuts his own initiatives 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s part of a historic expansion of the welfare state. Democrats want to make coronavirus relief provisions permanent in new package 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Thus, engaging in erotic adventures, psychotropic drug experiments and the "invention" of new lifestyles made possible the transgression of the normalized self that is produced by the institutions of the modern welfare state. The true story of Michel Foucault's LSD trip that changed history 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The unprecedented legislation supports the virus fight and issues direct checks to Americans but also lays the groundwork for a permanent expansion of the federal welfare state. Biden to states: Make all adults eligible for vaccine by May 1 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Biden is now embracing a sweeping expansion of the welfare state with a price tag that is just under half of what the entire federal government spent in 2019. With Relief Plan, a Champion of the Middle Class Comes to Aid the Poor 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Republicans charge the move amounts to an expansion of the welfare state that will disincentivize parents from seeking work. Child tax credit expansion sets up showdown with GOP 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z “The welfare state was bad for our people — the state became the father in the Black and brown household and that was a bad, bad mistake.” A Vexing Question for Democrats: What Drives Latino Men to Republicans? 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Rich from oil and with a generous welfare state, Norway is frequently named among the world’s best places to live, topping last year’s United Nations Human Development Index, among other things. Norway proposes easing of drugs law in bid to help addicts 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z He will say the pandemic should provide a "call to arms" akin to the WW2-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state. Covid shows need for bigger government role, says Starmer 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “So in countries where the welfare state minimises the economic impact - like Germany - there might be less of a negative effect.” Lockdown bambino bust: 9 months on, Italian births fall 22 percent 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z But in fact they put the adjectives "welfare state" or "social democratic" or "Scandinavian style" in front of the word capitalist. How capitalism’s dogged defenders and propagandists defend it from criticism 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z “One should be able to trust that society works and it also exists when you get older. Anything else is not worthy of a welfare state like ours,” Lofven told a news conference. Swedish king: Sweden has failed to protect the elderly 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Also, these countries were forced to adjust taxes and the welfare state when their cost began to hurt their economies. This era’s capitalism is driving many among the young to socialism 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Scaling back the bloated welfare state alters a system in which cradle-to-grave benefits buy loyalty - a recipe for unrest without concessions from the top. Oil-rich Kuwait faces reckoning as debt crisis looms 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Scaling back the bloated welfare state alters a system in which cradle-to-grave benefits buy loyalty — a recipe for unrest without concessions from the top. Oil-rich Kuwait faces reckoning as debt crisis looms 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Post-1945, central government was in the ascendancy as Labour delivered the welfare state. Covid-19: Will the pandemic shift the power balance in England for good? 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z They show up on Facebook, where some of his posts support gun rights and criticize a welfare state. He Already Saw the Election as Good vs. Evil. Then His Tractor Burned. 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z They accepted the New Deal in the United States, and in Europe they accepted the welfare state. How the conservative movement and the rise of the hard right created Donald Trump 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The concern, he added, was that some might expect a new draft to turn Chile into a benevolent welfare state overnight. Chileans go to polls to vote on throwing out Pinochet-era constitution 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z In this context, there is not much scope for major expansion of the welfare state without seriously harming economic growth and thus intergenerational equity. Which aspect of US economic inequality is most worrying? 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z There is no advocacy here of big government and welfare state narratives either. How Pope Francis's encyclical could shake up the US election | Catherine Pepinster 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z This war culture also assaults every element of the welfare state. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z “It’s government trying to emulate Silicon Valley,” said Christiaan van Veen, director of the digital welfare state and human rights project at New York University. British Grading Debacle Shows Pitfalls of Automating Government 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z At the conclusion of the Second World War, free nations faced a choice whether to construct a welfare state or a warfare state. As the pandemic has made clear, America has no welfare state — but we sure have a warfare state 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z But in the countries with a social welfare state, they see this as an investment in their future. The reverse birth tourists: US women seek cheaper countries to have babies 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z “Canadians accept big government, which is how we built the social welfare state…. We defer to authority.” Column: I'm in Canada, where the COVID police are watching 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Moreover, this attack on the welfare state and common good is increasingly legitimated and normalized through tyrannical forms of education in a variety of sites, especially in the broader cultural sphere. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z “Today, we have modern day soup kitchen lines in one of the richest cities in the welfare state.” California fails to protect Latino workers as coronavirus ravages communities of color 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “It’s very much about the welfare state,” Mr. Harr said of Scandinavian countries. Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Obviously, there is much to be written in our constitution about the NHS, our schools and the welfare state, and I’ll leave it to the experts to detail that. It’s your very own independence day, England. Here’s how to improve on the US edition | Hadley Freeman 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Herbert Hoover opposed public relief — for the agricultural sector, the unemployed or the welfare state, in general — during the Depression. To achieve a new New Deal, Democrats must learn from the old one 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z With respect to the latter, the COVID-19 pandemic is deeply interconnected with the politicization of the social order through the destructive assaults waged by neoliberal capital on the welfare state and the ecosystem. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Roosevelt spent the 1930s passing a series of economic reforms known as the New Deal that alleviated the misery of the Great Depression and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state. Joe Biden wants to be the next FDR — but that won't be enough to solve our crises 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z But these criticisms of American insensitivity rest on the erroneous assumption that a more robust and generous welfare state would not benefit almost everyone in the country. Images of power: When will American politics move past spectacle and sensation? 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Britain’s welfare state – the lasting foundation stone of progressive politics in this country to this day – owes its origins to a government that was humble enough to learn from others. A tale of two pandemics: how Germany got it right, and Britain blundered | Martin Kettle 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Inequality under neoliberal capitalism is a cancer that functions as a form of slow violence that attacks the social fabric, the welfare state, and the body politic. The plague of inequality in the age of pandemic: This uprising is about more than George Floyd 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z The pandemic has revealed the ugly and cruel face of neoliberalism, which has waged war on the social contract, public sphere and the welfare state since the 1970s. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The Great Depression led to the beginnings of a welfare state to help the needy. Opinion | Trump promised national pride. A new poll proves he’s delivered national shame. 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z During his premiership, Palme increased the power of labour unions, greatly expanded health care and the welfare state, removed all formal political powers from the monarchy and invested heavily in education. Who assassinated this prime minister and why? 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The New Deal and the social democratic welfare state of post-World War II America can be seen as an application of this reworked theory of liberty. Anti-lockdown protesters show how the idea of "freedom" has degenerated 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z By tripling the tax, Saudi Arabia is accelerating the shift away from a welfare state, argued Ali Shihabi, a Saudi commentator. Saudi Arabia’s Big Dreams and Easy Living Hit a Wall 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z In the century since the Spanish flu of 1918-19, the intertwined rise of globalisation and national welfare states took place against the background of relatively benign disease conditions. 'We are living through the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene' 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The welfare state is actually the one to which we should aspire — a nation in which everyone’s welfare is valued and nurtured. Opinion | Building a Better, Fairer Nation 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z But both the Swedish and Spanish examples show us, in their own way, that another answer is possible: the rollback of neoliberal democracy and the return of the social democratic welfare state. Why might Sweden's Covid-19 policy work? Trust between citizens and state | Umut Özkırımlı and Lars Tragardh 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z It's true that other countries with stronger welfare states and no analogy to the Tea Party — including Britain, France, Italy and Spain — also failed to cope with COVID-19 in optimal fashion. The COVID-19 catastrophe has deep roots in American politics — and was totally preventable 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The modern welfare state was constructed in three great waves: Opinion | The America We Need 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Stimulus checks, intended to offset the crisis, began landing in checking accounts this week, making much of America, temporarily, a welfare state. The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The eventual result was the first phase of welfare state construction across the world, which climaxed with the Swedish social democrats’ ambitious reforms of the 1930s. What history can teach us about building a fairer society after coronavirus | Richard Power Sayeed 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z “After this is over I never want to hear people moaning about the welfare state again, I never want to hear people moaning about nurses again. Or porters,” he explained. Ricky Gervais bashes rich celebrities complaining about coronavirus quarantine: 'I just don’t want to hear it' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “We have one of the strongest welfare states in the world, and we have built up reserves for difficult times during good times,” German Labor Minister Hubertus Heil said last month. How Europe manages to keep a lid on coronavirus unemployment while it spikes in the U.S. 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Across Western Europe, those who had survived the war created welfare states that would not seek complete equality but instead would ensure that whatever befell them, they would be safe. If the World Fails to Protect the Economy, COVID-19 will Damage Health Long into the Future 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z “A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not for patching,” declared William Beveridge as he laid the foundations for the postwar welfare state. After coronavirus, the left must be ready to cure all our social ills | Owen Jones 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The twinned crises of the Great Depression and the second world war set the stage for the modern welfare state. ‘We can’t go back to normal’: how will the world emerge from the coronavirus crisis? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z But it was not just high unemployment that led to the welfare state, the mixed economy, and more expansive government. Will sky-high unemployment lead to authoritarianism or progress? | Barry Eichengreen 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z “But it shouldn’t be a Trojan horse for permanently transforming the welfare state.” Conservatives gutted the social safety net. Now, in a crisis, they’re embracing it. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z During the 1980s, Ms. Thatcher substantially diminished the traditional social welfare state and embraced the privatization of national industry. Europe’s Leaders Ditch Austerity and Fight Pandemic With Cash 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Second, there was an attempt to inject equity into economies through enhanced power for trade unions, more progressive taxation and the expansion of welfare states. The coronavirus is leading to a whole new way of economic thinking | Larry Elliott 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z There are few greater heroes to liberals than Franklin Roosevelt, the first architect of America’s welfare state. Why America Will Never Get Medicare for All 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z The Beveridge Report that created the British welfare state was a product of not just the 1930s but also of the second world war. Will sky-high unemployment lead to authoritarianism or progress? | Barry Eichengreen 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Sanders and Warren advocate a high-tax-and-benefits system, patterned on European welfare states. Opinion | Here’s how much a Bernie Sanders presidency would cost 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Alexander says they were children of the welfare state, and that they believed the narrowing gap in inequality would continue as the decades rolled on. ‘I heard the signal – and threw my flour bombs’: why the 1970 Miss World protest is still making waves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z After the end of World War II, it adjusted to the end of empire by embedding itself in an Atlantic alliance and building a European-style welfare state. What if Brexit Works? 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z On the other hand, Denmark's high-functioning social welfare state is only possible due to its status as an imperial power in its own right within its situation in the EU. Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman is here to fight the undead 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Like the young Biden, he vigorously defended the threadbare American welfare state. Joe Biden used to be a progressive Democrat. What happened? | Bhaskar Sunkara 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z This is a crisis produced, in part, through a full-scale attack on the welfare state, labor and public goods. Impeachment and the politics of organized forgetting: This attack on Trump isn't nearly enough 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z In a country that had not yet built a welfare state, government assistance was discretionary and families were fed by charity and soup kitchens. The bushfire crisis has shown a way forward for Australia – and revealed who we truly are | Van Badham 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s a business model that reduces everything to a series of app-enabled transactions, and calls it work, leaving what’s left of the welfare state to fill in the rest. Opinion | The Gig Economy Is Coming for Your Job 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The United States cannot keep expanding its massive military might and also expand its social welfare state. America's war machine rolls on — and most Democrats do nothing to stop it 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Conservatives, hoping to constrain the size of the welfare state, overstate how much control people have over their lives; liberals, hoping to expand it, overstate our powerlessness. The Equality Conundrum 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The enemy at this time of her life was not the welfare state, but capitalism. Himmelfarb, influential conservative scholar, dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z After Marx’s death in 1883, the socialist movement took two paths: one of Leninist central state planning, the other of the European welfare state. Opinion | More Socialism, or More Capitalism? 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Unions called this year’s strike Dec. 5 against a pension reform plan they see as threatening the French welfare state. French oil refineries blocked as pension strike hits day 23 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z “Unless Congress acts, with some presidential buy-in, we are going to be growing at the rate of a European welfare state,” Pye told Fox News. National debt disappears as 2020 campaign issue – but it keeps growing 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Unions say it threatens the idea of the welfare state. Protesters block Paris subway on 19th day of pension strikes 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z A classic example is that everybody is against poverty, but is the best way to solve poverty by encouraging a welfare state or by increasing the number of small business? Why the Editor of Christianity Today Decided to Rebuke Trump 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z The welfare state is being dismantled in many countries. Impeachment won't slow the global rise of the radical right — but an alternative vision might 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “We’re not just talking about the welfare state now — it’s the welfare state, plus plans to democratize the economy.” Democrats’ 2020 campaign is a fight ‘over the future of American capitalism’ 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z A welfare state is, after all, a fundamentally national enterprise. Opinion | The parallels between Britain and the U.S. are inexact. But the similarities are undeniable. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Medicare and Medicaid acts of 1965: These votes placed Republicans in the mostly uncomfortable position of expanding the welfare state and awarding Lyndon B. Johnson a major victory. Opinion | Republicans face political risks on impeachment. But history shows not all is lost. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, grudgingly agreed to hold a new referendum, but avoided focusing on the Brexit issue, instead emphasizing his party’s economic platform and commitment to expanding the welfare state. The U.K. Election Explained, in One Number 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z For many people, social democracy has outlived its purpose because it has successfully created a welfare state, to the extent the public wanted it. Impeachment won't slow the global rise of the radical right — but an alternative vision might 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Among conservatives, it’s almost an article of faith that LBJ’s welfare state fostered a culture of dependence that trapped people in the very poverty it was meant to eliminate. Lessons of LBJ’s War on Poverty 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the big gap in the electoral market that opened up was for a party offering a welfare state with reactionary social policy. This Labour meltdown has been building for decades | Aditya Chakrabortty 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z What counts as liberal in the United States would hardly qualify as such in Britain, a creator of the postwar welfare state. After U.K. election, Boris Johnson promises unity, while Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party engages in recriminations 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In the US, per capita after-tax income is 50% higher than that of the Scandinavian social democracies, which fund their welfare states through high regressive consumption taxes on the middle class. How to expand American economic pie 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z "I was able to get them to enthusiastically support the largest expansion of the social welfare state since the Affordable Care Act -- the widow's tax and paid parental leave," Smith said. House approves defense bill authorizing Space Force, 12 weeks of paid family leave for feds 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z “I was able to get them to enthusiastically support the largest expansion of the social welfare state since the Affordable Care Act — the widow’s tax and paid parental leave,” Smith said. House OKs defense bill, parental leave for federal workers 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z But workers’ unions see the changes as threatening the French welfare state. France’s pension overhaul: a look at the planned changes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z But workers’ unions see the changes as threatening the French welfare state. France’s pension overhaul: a look at the planned changes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Marin will struggle to defend her leftist views against the Centre Party, which wants action to boost Finnish employment to pay for the costly welfare state. Finland's parliament approves world's youngest prime minister 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z “It’s a real provocation to our welfare state.” With France in Uproar Over Pensions, Macron May Need One Early 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z She is seen as being a left-winger in the party, and a strong advocate of Finland's welfare state. The rising star set to be Finland's youngest PM 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z At some point in recent political history, the welfare state went from a universal conceit to something piecemeal: this person, judged by this rubric or bureaucrat, receives such-and-such social program. The piecemeal welfare state 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Critics denounce Macron’s pro-business policies as threatening the French welfare state. France’s Macron faces decisive test over economic policies 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Macron is playing with political fire: The retirement system is a beloved feature of France’s famously generous welfare state. France braces for massive strikes and transportation disruptions starting Dec. 5 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z I believe that the U.K.’s problems with Europe are also due to the demise of another feature of postwar British politics: the welfare state. The Mail 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z In 1945, Britain, facing a mass demobilization of soldiers and a people tired of war-time austerity, created a large welfare state. A new generation is rising up to resist neoliberalism across the globe 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z This phenomenon, of the piecemeal social welfare state, is not confined to the world of student debt. The piecemeal welfare state 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z He continues to seek to overhaul sectors of France’s famously generous welfare state — persisting where previous French presidents have caved. ‘Yellow vest’ anniversary: What happened to the movement that shook France? 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z In late September, they touched down in a place far different from New York: Norway, a welfare state with a low crime rate whose population is fairly homogeneous and smaller than New York’s. New York’s Jails Are Failing. Is the Answer 3,600 Miles Away? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z In the nineteen-fifties, two moderately conservative regimes turned their countries slightly to the right, while establishing a decades-long, bipartisan commitment to the welfare state. From Little Englanders to Brexiteers 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z His matter-of-fact response was that this would increase the power of the poor and lead to “the kind of politics” that favour the expansion of the welfare state instead of business-friendly policies. Democracy doesn’t matter to the defenders of ‘economic freedom’ | Quinn Slobodian 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Berle saw in the public corporation the American proxy for the European welfare state. Review | As Big Business evolved, did it doom the American Dream? 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It helped wean the country from coal, with revenues from the gas sales adding hundreds of billions of euros to the national budget, enabling the growth of a generous welfare state. Earthquakes Are Jolting the Netherlands. Gas Drilling Is to Blame. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “It is a social welfare state, so there is a level of resources applied, whether you’re in or out, that’s just different from here,” Ms. Glazer. New York’s Jails Are Failing. Is the Answer 3,600 Miles Away? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z In what he calls the rise of the “digital welfare state”, billions of dollars of public money is now being invested in automated systems that are radically changing the nature of social protection. ‘Digital welfare state’: Big Tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warns 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Within that revolution, the human element of the welfare state is being diluted. Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Democrats embraced the demolition of the welfare state, the deregulation of financial markets and the creation of the prison-industrial complex. Impeachment in the hall of mirrors: Will this battle save democracy — or end it? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z But that would require compromise from all sides, especially on essential issues where the former chancellor has championed a much tougher line, including migration, domestic security and the welfare state. Kurz Wins Austria Election. Will He Turn to Far Right or Greens to Govern? 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z And were part of the strong welfare state that our movement fought for and built. Brexit: McDonnell says Labour would introduce 32-hour working week within decade – live news 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The advent of the digital revolution has allowed the private sector to appropriate huge swathes of welfare state almost without public comment. ‘Digital welfare state’: Big Tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warns 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z One version of this idea, called the sovereign wealth fund, already exists in Norway, where returns from a more than $1 trillion fund go into the country’s treasury and help finance its generous welfare state. The radical plan for taming capitalism: Give everyone a share of Wall Street 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z “Today’s socialism for younger people means the Canadian health system and the Swedish welfare state,” Amenta said. Young Americans warm to socialism — even Miami Cubans 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z “Today’s socialism for younger people means the Canadian health system and the Swedish welfare state,” Armenta said. Young Americans embrace socialism, even among Miami Cubans 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z In our case, that trauma likely comes from the receding welfare state, a lack of a social safety net, a failed school system or a vicious school-to-prison pipeline. If "Lord of the Rings" is a parable for trauma, what can it teach us now? 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z As a result of the absence of accountability, “digital technologies are employed in the welfare state to surveil, target, harass and punish beneficiaries, especially the poorest and most vulnerable among them”. ‘Digital welfare state’: Big Tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warns 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Through her work with the fund, the heiress struck up a close friendship with Garrett Hardin, a microbiologist and ecologist who argued that the modern welfare state encouraged overpopulation and ecological depletion. Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “This rule is just taking the principle that immigrants should be able to pay their own bills and translating it into the modern conditions of the welfare state,” he said. Thousands from ‘huddled masses’ rejected as paupers in year poem added to Statue of Liberty 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z That drove the foundation of the welfare state and the NHS in Britain; in the US, it underpinned the “Great Society” and “War on Poverty” of Lyndon Johnson. Ibram X Kendi on why not being racist is not enough 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z At the same time, young people are more likely to associate socialism with Scandinavian-style social welfare state than with Soviet communism. ‘We’re here to win’: US democratic socialists move to center stage 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It could “ensure a higher standard of living for the vulnerable and disadvantaged, devise new ways of caring for those left behind. That would be the real digital welfare state revolution.” ‘Digital welfare state’: Big Tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warns 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Sweden, known for its generous welfare state and status as a peaceful haven for recent migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, is again debating how best to integrate and support them. In Sweden, ASAP Rocky, and a country's identity, stand trial 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It would be goodbye to the welfare state and the tolerant society. Labour’s best tactic to beat Boris Johnson? A popular front | Paul Mason 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The fabric of the welfare state has grown frayed from a decade of austerity. Boris Johnson says he’ll spend, but who will pay? 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest sign was that the first Democratic president in the post-Reagan era, Bill Clinton, famously declared that "the era of big government is over" and pushed to further dismantle the social welfare state. How did the Republican Party become so conservative? 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Yet, despite the Reagan revolution, the Newt Gingrich revolution and the tea party revolution, the welfare state is still standing as strong as ever. Opinion | Why American conservatism failed 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z For me, I do believe that government exists, and the welfare state exists, as a safety net. Tomi Lahren wants "difficult conversations." This is one of them 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Successfully chasing down fathers had long been a cost-saving goal of modern welfare states. The Paternity Reveal 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z One of the downsides of living in a developed nation with a minimal social welfare state, like the U.S., is that one’s ability to survive is tied to one’s job. Researchers say 8 hours of work a week is enough to feel fulfilled. So why won't hustle culture die? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z How, then, is it possible for the Scandinavians to afford such an expansive welfare state? Billionaires aren’t the problem 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Algeria’s welfare state rewarded him with $6,000 in aid to build a modest house where the ground floor serves as his poultry butchery. In Algeria, conservatives weigh in against pressure for... 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z It seemed that Sanders must mean something more than just expanding the welfare state, but if so, what? Opinion | Bernie Sanders’s brand of socialism is hard to pin down 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Strong worker movements fought for robust welfare states under unique economic and political circumstances. Capitalism isn't 'broken'. It's working all too well - and we're the worse for it | Maria Svart 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Mid-century American political culture was dominated by New Deal thinking, which prized everything that Rand despised: the welfare state, empathy, interdependence. The Persistent Ghost of Ayn Rand, the Forebear of Zombie Neoliberalism 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Danes pay some of the highest taxes in the world to support a generous cradle-to-grave welfare state. Denmark's centre-left 'set for election win' 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z He drew on the influential social scientist Charles Murray, an advocate of eliminating the welfare state, to support his gospel that the problem that needed solving was not poverty — it was welfare. Review | Piecing together the real woman behind Reagan’s ‘welfare queen’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z White male rage has emerged out of the destruction of social bonds and the gutting of the welfare state and intensified with the neoliberal unleashing of destructive energies of “deracination, displacement, and disintegration.” Against the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Donald Trump: Part 1 of 2 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z And yet social democratic parties continue to lose electoral support, and the welfare state – an institutional expression of many of these policies – is consistently dismantled. Why copying the populist right isn’t going to save the left 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Is the sultan's embrace of stricter Islam perhaps a search for new legitimacy in preparation for when the generous, no-tax welfare state he has offered Bruneians until now is no longer affordable? Inside the silent nation of Brunei 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Nowadays, what you would call social democracy is the movement that seeks to expand the welfare state, but within the confines of capitalism. The Editor of Jacobin on the Evolution of American Socialism 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z On the right, it’s a way to streamline the welfare state. What would a universal basic income mean for America? Stockton thinks it has the answer 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z His talk of raising taxes is unlikely to drive off his supporters, many of whom value highly Finland’s welfare state. Finland election: voters may pick first leftist prime minister in two decades 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Universal Credit, the biggest reform to the UK welfare state since the 1940s, is widely regarded as a disaster because of its failure to pay claimants properly. Rethink government with AI 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z I've heard that the less robust the social welfare state is, the more common it is for people to seek out sugar daddy–type relationships. What do Uber and sugar daddies have in common? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z A lot of the welfare state has deteriorated. The Editor of Jacobin on the Evolution of American Socialism 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z In the 80s, as Reagan and Thatcher dismantled the welfare state, romance heroines found themselves drawn to domineering corporate heroes. Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z She gave passionate speeches in support of the welfare state and condemned Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in the House of Commons days after her death in 2013. At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z He embraced the welfare state and demonized racial and religious minorities, attracting the most racially resentful whites from across the political spectrum. Opinion | An Opening for the Democrats 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z So, it's not like it's a pendulum swing back to the welfare state. What do Uber and sugar daddies have in common? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z His route to fulfilling this dream was through a labor-based coalition and the fight for an expansive welfare state. To fight racism, we need to think beyond reparations | Bhaskar Sunkara 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Just because it is inconvenient to question the drift toward an ever-larger — even socialist — welfare state does not mean we can escape the possible consequences of moving in this direction. Opinion | Has America gone socialist? 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The original vision for the welfare state was a largely contributory one. Who is the UK's £100bn benefits bill spent on? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The impact of a dramatic reconfiguration of the industrial economy require similarly large changes to the welfare state. Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? | Phil McDuff 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z This kind of direct assistance has become a lifeline in a country where the welfare state has been virtually destroyed and civil society is under extreme pressure. When a Dissident Becomes a Collaborator 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z A meagre welfare state also needs to be given a boost, along with a health system that is undermined by corruption. US and China must focus on striking a deal for the sake of both economies 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z It’s true that modern socialism, as opposed to the traditional strain, is mostly about the welfare state. Opinion | Has America gone socialist? 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Unlike in New York, where punitive tax rates apply to fund its burgeoning public sector and welfare state, Florida’s residents aren’t subjected to any income or estate tax. As residents flee New York's high taxes, state uses intrusive audits to get cash from defectors 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z But without the welfare state, the benefits of growth would not have been distributed so widely: Inequality declined dramatically during the postwar decades. Perspective | Five myths about socialism 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It is the material that most embodies the era of the welfare state, a time when the public sector-built housing, schools, hospitals and theatres on a majestic scale. How concrete became the ultimate lifestyle concept 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z “Philanthropy is not a substitute for democracy or proper taxation or a good welfare state,” he says. Revolt against the Rich 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z He asked Americans to choose freedom over what he labeled the “soup kitchen of the welfare state.” Opinion | Alaska is set to be the next great reckoning for conservatives 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z As the social or welfare state is dismantled, the punishing state expands while the state is reduced to serving the interests of the financial and banking elite. How higher education has been weaponized in the age of Trump — and how it can be redeemed 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z We have a large welfare state; social regulation, led by the environment, is pervasive. Opinion | American affluence: The past isn’t prologue 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z “The resulting model, known as ‘Rhine capitalism,’ represents a third way between laissez-faire liberalism and socialism, by combining free market capitalism with fair social policies within a welfare state.” National Strike Grips Belgium, Canceling Flights and Shutting Breweries 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Macron has refused to change his stance on liberalising the economy and overhauling the welfare state, and the government is braced for protests to continue for several more months. Macron's Great Debate: a turning point or 'puffed-up nonsense'? 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z And that is an important part of the formation of the modern welfare state. How Liberals Can Use Nationalism for Good 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z That would overturn the entirety of the American welfare state beginning with the New Deal. Ocasio-Cortez and Green New Deal will make Dems 'unelectable': Marc Thiessen 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Italy is planning to introduce a “citizens’ wage” in April in a major overhaul of the welfare state, which will offer income support to the unemployed and poor. Finland’s Basic Income Trial Boosts Happiness, but Not Employment 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z There are many examples throughout history, whether we are talking about the fight against slavery, or women fighting for the right to vote, or the establishment of the welfare state. Fightback against the billionaires: the radicals taking on the global elite 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “If we assume the best in people, we can radically redesign our democracy and welfare states,” he said. 'This is about saving capitalism': the Dutch historian who savaged Davos elite 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z There is something very strong that liberalism borrowed from nationalism that allowed the welfare state to develop and become a society that is more caring than other political entities. How Liberals Can Use Nationalism for Good 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “A pro-equality, opportunity-for-all, welfare state snowflake. But, if I ever defend freedom of speech on here, I’m suddenly an alt right nazi. How did that happen?” Ricky Gervais says freedom of speech is getting lost, slams political correctness on Twitter 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And yeah, the other depressing side effect is a decaying social welfare state. From apricots to Apple: Keith Spencer on the "People's History of Silicon Valley 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Once Europe’s rising star, Macron is now fighting to save his image and his vision for transforming France’s welfare state and economic model. France’s Macron faces tough challenges at home and in Europe 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z While his calls for revolution in the 1960s went unheeded, he argued that the establishment of the modern welfare state was nonetheless a major achievement for the left. Norman Birnbaum, left-wing sociologist and journalist with the Nation, dies at 92 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z In Tamir’s view, a liberal version of nationalism is one of the only hopes of averting nationalism’s most destructive features, and entrenching support for welfare states. How Liberals Can Use Nationalism for Good 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The resulting policy model is what we call the free-market welfare state. Opinion | We don’t need to be so polarized. Let’s be pro-market and pro-government. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “It’s a victory for a massive welfare state without work requirements and an out-of-control budget.” Kansas senator’s consensus building may cost him support 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z He and his fellow activists sip cafe lattes or “Identity Pils,” their own branded craft beer, and discuss the future of the welfare state, which they contend is doomed at current levels of immigration. Germany’s Far-Right Rebrands: Friendlier Face, Same Doctrine 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z In truth, military spending is in a quiet competition with the American welfare state — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and the like — which now represents roughly 70 percent of budget outlays. Opinion | Wake up. America’s military isn’t invincible. 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Still others hope for a deep crisis, but with a different outcome: That chaos that will lead to a bonfire of regulations, an abandonment of the welfare state, new opportunities for hedge funds and investors. Opinion | The lure of chaos is leading Britain straight into the abyss 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z This is why, even according to indexes produced by pro-market organizations such as the Heritage Foundation and Fraser Institute, the freest economies generally feature big welfare states. Opinion | We don’t need to be so polarized. Let’s be pro-market and pro-government. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The report is a manifesto for a new centrism based on what the authors call a “free-market welfare state” model. A manifesto for a new centrism should give us hope 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z In this worldview, it is liberals who are undermining Western democracy by overstretching the welfare state and allowing fundamentalist Islam into the country. Germany’s Far-Right Rebrands: Friendlier Face, Same Doctrine 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Denmark has struggled for decades with how to integrate immigrants, the overwhelming majority of whom are law-abiding, into its welfare state. Denmark approves plan to send foreign criminals to tiny island 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z It was the first time I saw a welfare state. Perspective | Pakistani leader to the U.S.: We’re not your ‘hired gun’ anymore 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, both major parties remain blind to the depolarizing logic of the free-market welfare state. Opinion | We don’t need to be so polarized. Let’s be pro-market and pro-government. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The nations that have the freest markets also generally have the most generous welfare states. A manifesto for a new centrism should give us hope 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Good King Wenceslas glorifies a patriarchal definition of charitable giving that belittles the value of a properly funded welfare state. Don’t listen too hard to Christmas songs: their lyrics are always creepy | Katy Guest 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He criticized the Civil Rights Act that was before Congress, denounced the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty and warned of a welfare state. George Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z America’s nation of God-given rights and cherished privacies is not one and the same with a welfare state, or with a government tied to a monarchy, symbolic or otherwise. Sweden’s human microchip craze a warning for privacy-loving Americans 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “Now, you’ve got the modern welfare state that tells black folks and Hispanic folks and poor white folks: ‘Don’t worry. MLB donated to Minnesota congressman who made racist, misogynist remarks 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Then they realized they were going to have to liberalize their economies if they were going to be able to afford their welfare states. A manifesto for a new centrism should give us hope 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Tax and transfer policy is part of one of the longest-running debates in Western capitalism: the role of the welfare state. How automation is changing work 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The remnants of other benefits of the Soviet welfare state — like free health care and education — continue going through “optimization,” the preferred Russian euphemism for budget cuts. Opinion | When Russia Was Full of Hope 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Reagan’s famous half-hour commercial for Goldwater described the welfare state as the path to totalitarianism. The Demise of the Moderate Republican 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z To balance the power of corporations, we also introduced institutions like unions, labour laws and the welfare state so that workers would share the benefits that industrialisation brought. Facebook and Google are run by today's robber barons. Break them up 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z His administration is often credited with founding the modern welfare state, and in the NHS' 70th birthday year, a tribute to the man who oversaw its introduction may seem fitting. Who could be the face of the new £50 note? 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z An economic depression followed that saw people line up for food aid, an unprecedented sight in this country with a progressive welfare state. Iceland seeks financial crash closure with last prosecution 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The corporate welfare state -- going soft on corporate crime and keeping enforcement budgets down. Ralph Nader: Democrats are still weak and corrupt, “could blow it again” 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Homicide, West said, is a product of the Democratic welfare state, which destroyed black families. Kanye West, Donald Trump, and the Truth About Chicago 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z On the campaign trail before the July elections, Mr. Khan championed austerity even as he promised to build an Islamic welfare state. Pakistan Seeks I.M.F. Bailout as Government Sends Mixed Messages 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z He moved from Buffalo almost a decade ago to escape high taxes and what he called the welfare state, but low unemployment and economic growth do not engender his support for the GOP. Democrat Wexton leads Rep. Comstock by 12 points in Northern Va. district, survey finds 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Sweden prides itself on having some of the most progressive climate legislation in the world: policies adopted over the last couple of years aim to make Sweden “the first fossil-free welfare state in the world.” The Fifteen-Year-Old Climate Activist Who Is Demanding a New Kind of Politics 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z In Japan, the ethnic Koreans were seen as politically suspect — many were left-wing — and a drain on the welfare state. They were promised a ‘paradise’ in North Korea. They are now suing over the lies. 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The catalysts for violence in that city predate the “welfare state” and the rise of single-parent black households, in the nineteen-seventies. Kanye West, Donald Trump, and the Truth About Chicago 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z But going to the I.M.F. will likely mean cuts to those welfare state dreams. Pakistan Seeks I.M.F. Bailout as Government Sends Mixed Messages 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Sweden—an affluent and politically stable nation, known for its consensual politics and generous welfare state—is now entering uncharted territory. Swedish Parliament Votes to Oust Prime Minister Stefan Löfven 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The aging of most wealthy societies compounds the pressure on the welfare state. Opinion | Liberalism 3.0? 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z In an interview, Berman pointed to a paradox confronting the center-left: Many defectors to the far right in Sweden are supporters of the welfare state, just as Trump voters embrace Social Security and Medicare. Opinion | The ominous decline of social democracy 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z SC is a welfare state that hates to see people of color on welfare. Hurricane Florence Updates: 12 Dead, Power Failures and Catastrophic Flooding 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The migrants are overwhelmingly looking for a better life — and the loads of free stuff offered by the liberal EU welfare state look pretty good from where they sit. EU backlash grows against internet thought control 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The main issues were also the most contentious: immigration, crime, the welfare state and, after a summer of forest fires, the environment. Sweden’s Centrists Prevail Even as Far Right Has Its Best Showing Ever 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z The Sweden Democrats, meanwhile, hew to conventional views on the need to spend more on Sweden’s welfare state. Opinion | Sweden’s Political Warning 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z In this campaign, he has linked immigration, crime and the decline of the Swedish welfare state. In liberal Sweden, a party with neo-Nazi origins could become one of the country’s biggest after Sunday’s elections 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z But we keep sending those prayers and well wishes and money to bail out the anti-welfare welfare states. Hurricane Florence Updates: 12 Dead, Power Failures and Catastrophic Flooding 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Another common concern: High-levels of immigration are straining the welfare state. Opinion | Europe’s Leaders Need a New Way of Talking About Immigration 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The main contenders are the center-left Social Democrats, who have dominated Swedish political life for a century and are credited with building Sweden’s welfare state. Sweden’s most significant election in years, at a glance 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He predicted that the Social Democrats, the party who built the famous Swedish welfare state, would collapse, “even if not this time,” and “we will become the largest party.” Sweden Was Long Seen as a ‘Moral Superpower.’ That May Be Changing. 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The welfare state would become even more pervasive and activist. Opinion | How to Argue With a Young Socialist 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Observers say Khan also faces an array of difficult decisions in economic and financial policy, some of which may contradict his popular campaign vows to create an “Islamic welfare state.” Imran Khan is sworn in as prime minister, marking a new era in Pakistan 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z But Khan’s campaign pledges are likely to be checked by a worsening economic outlook, analysts say, especially his vow to build a welfare state. Promises, promises, Imran Khan raises Pakistani hopes sky high 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z On the campaign trail, he vowed to establish an Islamic welfare state and to build millions of housing units. Imran Khan Takes Oath in Pakistan, a Nation Divided and in Debt 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z They vow to protect the civil religion of the welfare state and restore the “Folkhemmet,” or the “people’s home,” the idea of the nation as a family where everyone contributes and cares for one another. Sweden Was Long Seen as a ‘Moral Superpower.’ That May Be Changing. 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Volunteerism is far more than a flawed Republican concept that might replace portions of the welfare state. Opinion | Why we volunteer 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z He ran on an anti-corruption platform that pledged to improve the lives of the country's poor with an "Islamic welfare state". Imran Khan to be confirmed as Pakistan PM 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The changes aim to rebalance the welfare state by creating more flexibility for companies to hire and fire, while offering greater training and support to help workers transition to new jobs. French Labor Overhaul Led by Unusual Figure: A Business Executive 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Without smooth transitions for struggling industries, or the safety net of the welfare state – through jobseeker benefits, education and training – whole communities can be left bereft of work. Is free trade always the answer? 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Many Latin American countries have reformed their economies, electoral systems and welfare states. Judging Latin America’s judges 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The current welfare state builds on a mindset of generosity. Universal basic income program fails in Ontario 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z But by the time I was in my teens, Democrats were seen as the party of double-digit inflation, the Iranian hostage crisis and a failed welfare state. Opinion | The lessons we can still learn from my friend Ron Dellums 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z In his victory speech, Mr. Khan said he wanted to turn Pakistan into an Islamic welfare state. Imran Khan’s First Test: Pakistan’s Troubled Economy 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z On the other, a widening agenda of civil rights protection and modest social reform programs at home, coupled with continued funding of the welfare state, albeit in reduced and partially privatized form. Did left-wing Hillary hate put Trump in the White House? A toxic question with bad answers 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Only a splinter group of “Texas oil millionaires” and right-wing politicians and businessmen believed it was possible to dismantle the welfare state, and, in Eisenhower’s estimation, they were “negligible” and “stupid.” Today’s conservatives are terrified of “socialism.” It wasn’t always that way 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z A UBI-focused welfare state is based on the assumption that generosity is just about giving people cash. Universal basic income program fails in Ontario 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The terms of an IMF deal will bring a populist party down to earth—so much for Mr Khan’s wild promises of an “Islamic welfare state”. How will Imran Khan govern? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z He has spoken of his hatred of what he claims is an oversized welfare state in Britain, blaming this "liberalism", for the dependency culture he says it has produced among the British black population. Who's who: Tory candidates for London mayor 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z “Far from being the Islamic welfare state that was envisaged, Pakistan is a country where politics is a game of loot and plunder,” Khan wrote in his memoir, Pakistan: A Personal History. Can Imran Khan fulfil Pakistan’s voters’ hopes and keep the generals at bay? 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z With the threat of communism gone, free market fundamentalists worked to liberate the global market and dismantle the welfare state, while left-wing movements grew precipitously weaker. Today’s conservatives are terrified of “socialism.” It wasn’t always that way 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z He calls for an Islamic welfare state that provides progress and education for the poor. Khan moves from cricket star to pious, anti-poverty reformer 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z At the same time, he has promised to build an “Islamic welfare state”, create 10 million jobs and build 5 million homes for the poor. 'Kaptaan' Khan's slog from sports icon to Pakistan's likely next PM 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z It will not be popular, and runs against Mr Khan’s promise to create an “Islamic welfare state”. Imran Khan’s unsportsmanlike win in Pakistan 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z “Greece resembles Scandinavian-style taxation, but its welfare state has nothing to compare to theirs: You don’t get anything in return.” Taxation Strangles Greece’s Growth Prospects 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z |
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