The idea behind the welfare state was to relieve poverty, reduce inequality, and achieve greater
social integration and solidarity, and in Britain these aims were sorely wanted after world war two ....
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Saturday that election of a Democrat to the White House in 2008 would open the way for a welfare state where bigger government, higher taxes and...
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The welfare state is bigger than ever despite a decade of policies designed to wean poor people from public aid.The number of families receiving cash benefits from welfare has plummeted since the g...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
FRENCH REVOLUTION (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Unveiling his domestic reform agenda in Paris Tuesday, Nicolas
Sarkozy called for '...
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The Hague (dpa) - Rightwing Dutch politician and Islam critic
Geert Wilders has made a name for himself with harsh one-liners about
Muslims, migration and remarks about the ...
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The Hague (dpa) - Rightwing Dutch politician and Islam critic
Geert Wilders has made a name for himself with harsh one-liners about
Muslims, migration and remarks about the ...
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Copenhagen (dpa)- Promises of lower taxes and improved public
services by Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen fuelled
speculation Tuesday of early elections in Denma...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
TONY BLAIR TO REGISN (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published May 11)
Britain's Tony B...
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Washington (dpa) - Rapidly ageing populations will threaten
economic success in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union if
governments fall behind on welfare-state reform...
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Sydney (dpa) - Whichever party wins the election - ascendant Labor
under new leader Kevin Rudd or veteran Prime Minister John Howard's
conservatives - Australians will be vo...
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The British Welfare State
Thompson warns of welfare state
