Secondly, Conservatives had to take on opponents who say UK government welfare changes "are unnecessary and unfair".
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Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith said 400, 000 households - one third of those in Wales -would lose from UK government welfare changes.
Another argument is that private contributions reduce the need for government welfare.
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Nearly half of councils in England face shortfalls in affordable housing as a result of government welfare reforms, a spending watchdog has warned.
After working as a government welfare-fraud inspector in Gotham for decades, she is now a pension-drawing retiree moving to Atlanta to open a restaurant.
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This is why government welfare programs tend to be very poor substitutes for private charity, especially when the funding comes from the more-distant federal level.
Mr Salmond also hit out at UK government welfare reforms to further the independence cause, including an attack on housing benefit changes, branded the "bedroom tax" by critics.
These days, crime levels have eased a little and government welfare programmes have lessened the plight of the very poor, but is life is still hell for many.
All in all I think the instinct that we should replace government welfare programs with just cash transfers is misguided, and paternalism in these programs is worth considering.
The Jawoyn people, with royalties from the Mount Todd gold mine and a tourist business at Katherine Gorge, aim to end the need for government welfare in five years.
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At Holyrood, the Scottish Conservatives have also come under pressure from Labour and the SNP government, who have used controversial UK government welfare reforms and spending cuts to portray the Tories as uncaring.
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Ms Sturgeon also criticised UK government welfare changes and its "under-occupancy charge", dubbed by critics as the "bedroom tax" - arguing that such an approach would not be taken if she had a say in an independent Scotland.
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Every person now living in the U.S. is the product of 50, 000 generations that survived and raised their children without government welfare programs, and under conditions that were far harsher than any that anyone faces in 21st century America.
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In these circumstances, even people with a moral or ethical will to save and to remain independent of the state had been essentially robbed of this option by government actions, and to make matters worse, if not hopeless had been corrupted into becoming an interest group pushing for larger government welfare programs.
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The UK government is devolving responsibility for the benefit to the Welsh government under welfare changes.
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Meanwhile the government finances welfare for those without insurance rights, as well as job-placement.
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The government said welfare reforms would ensure people got the training and skills they needed for local jobs.
The UK government said welfare changes would benefit lone parents.
It does not turn on whether Mr Portillo can really trim the fat he says he has found in the running costs of government, welfare fraud and so on.
During the Koizumi government, welfare expenditures were held down.
In December, Lord Leitch, chairman of the National Employment Panel, which advises government on welfare reform and business, said that Britain was lagging behind its competitors, with workforce skills ranked 24th out of 29 rich countries.
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The burden of the story was to show that many (most? all?) people who criticize big government and the welfare state are hypocrites because so many of them are recipients, in one way or another, of government largess.
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Democrats promise government services and welfare, and we should recognize that that has had some success.
New spending in some areas, such as the government's welfare-to-work programme, may well be justified.
The UK government's Welfare Reform Act also introduces a so-called "bedroom tax" in the social rented sector.
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The British government's Welfare Reform Bill passed through its final stage in the House of Lords on 1 March.
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It said it welcomed the government's welfare proposals but was seeking more information on how the chip system would work.
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