Sentences with phrase «about social welfare programs»

They certainly don't have anything good to say about social welfare programs or redistribution of wealth.

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At the same time, members of the GOP are already talking about cutting welfare and other social programs next, and there are signs that they'll be doing so at a bad time.

That's why you're increasingly hearing them talking up the concept of universal basic income, a social welfare program that would ensure widespread unemployment doesn't bring about equally widespread poverty and social unrest.

But this is the same guy who advised young people to take up smoking (and have lots of babies), to highlight his case about the insustainability of key social - welfare programs in light of our ever - greater longevity and creeping birth dearth.

Amy Sherman of the Hudson Institute, who has researched faith - based social service programs extensively, says that welfare reform has been a success insofar as it has changed how society thinks about helping the poor.

The fact that poverty remains a serious problem in the United States after the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars on social welfare programs over the past fifty years should have taught us all something about the complex problems of empowering the poor.

This is just a bad film that tried to say something about social injustice, the class differences between the rich and the poor, the unfair loss of welfare programs, the inhibiting cost of health insurance that is falsely being blamed on the government when it is the fault of insurance companies why the rates are so high, the hypocrisies of the Gulf War, and the failure of the media to be more responsive in covering all the political corruption.

Today, debates about the purpose and provision of education — on the left and the right alike — are reduced to platitude - laden charges that it is up to schools to do what the social reformers of the 1960s could not accomplish through entitlements, social - welfare programs, or other Great Society initiatives.

The East Bay SPCA's Humane Education Department has a unique program for teachers to use in the classroom to help students learn about animal welfare, human rights, environmental protection, and social justice challenges in our community.

Offending passages included proposals to eliminate the minimum wage and social welfare programs — matters generally unrelated to the environment, but obvious points of contention for a free market enthusiast — that appeared alongside more mainstream ideas about reducing waste and promoting energy conservation.

One thing that is striking about these studies is that the «most happy countries» are always countries with the a long tradition of strong government social welfare programs, high overall tax levels, and of interest to a blog on work law, high levels of collective bargaining coverage.