Synonyms for welfare state
wel·fare state

Princeton's WordNet

1. welfare statenoun

   a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

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1. Adam Smith:

   I was able to get them to enthusiastically support the largest expansion of the social welfare state since the Affordable Care Act -- the widows tax and paid parental leave, that was an enormous accomplishment, OK? I got them to do things that they never wanted to do.

2. Fox News:

   Democrats want this, they want a welfare state. That’s why all their policies increase the welfare state.

3. Frode Alfheim:

   Those revenues are not possible to replace from other sources. Much of the welfare state comes from this industry.

4. Martin Bujard:

   The bigger the economic fears, the bigger the impact on the birth rate, so in countries where the welfare state minimises the economic impact - like Germany - there might be less of a negative effect.

5. Republican Rep. Jason Lewis:

   What the welfare state has done to the black community, a hundred years of racism could not do, a hundred years of racism could not break it up, it could not destroy black families. Jim Crow could not do it. But what dependency has done, is has caused unwanted pregnancy, illegitimacy. It has told young black males that they are dispensable, they don't need to hang around when mom needs support or whatever and it has destroyed -- and not just black communities, but any urban community, and so what you've got here is now they're addicted. Large swaths of Hispanic communities, black communities are addicted to these, these subsidies.