This is the result of reforms such as those in Sweden in the 1990s and Germany a decade later that modernized labor markets and welfare systems, and made it easier to start and shut down companies. (Greece and Italy show what happens when structural reforms are postponed).
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Pressed by opposition lawmakers in parliament, Yoko Komiyama, minister of welfare, health and labor, has said she would consider reducing welfare payments.
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Europe could lose about 50 million workers over the next five decades if it fails to loosen labor laws and reform welfare programs.
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This eventually translated into a series of government programs, such as state-funded primary and secondary schooling, the adoption of a five-day, forty-hour workweek, elimination of child labor, introduction of welfare and unemployment services, senior income support, workplace safety regulations, environmental regulations, and eventually some form of universal healthcare.
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Yet, often of late, the fundamental question is indeed the acceptance of a market economy amid globalization, with all that means for taxes, capital and labor, the environment and the welfare state.
Remarkably, our allies don't seem willing to make the needed structural changes--slashing suffocating taxes, blasting away at job-killing labor laws and reforming initiative-stifling welfare policies--to spark genuine growth.
Nothing in the euro zone's history suggests the offer of blank checks, whether from the ECB or bailout funds, will do anything other than buy time time that will be squandered rather than used to address deep structural problems arising from inflexible labor markets, inefficient bureaucracies and unaffordable welfare systems.
"With Solis at the helm, we're absolutely confident that the Department of Labor will return to its primary mission of looking out for the health and welfare of America's workers, " said Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation.
On March 4, 1913, President William Howard Taft signed a bill establishing the United States Department of Labor -- an agency charged with promoting the welfare of American workers and ensuring their efforts are rewarded with fair wages and real protections.
For this reason Mr. Steuerle concludes that the Senate bill is not just a new health system but also "a new welfare and tax system" that will warp the labor market.
But Great Britain, where so many historic breakthroughs for liberty occurred, adopted forced labor during the late 1940s, and it has had a big welfare state ever since, as does France, Italy and the rest of Europe.
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One of the central achievements of the 1993 budget deal, the expansion of the earned-income tax credit, was an idea that had long been championed by the right, and it had far less curb appeal for labor-liberals than the promise of a cradle-to-grave welfare state.
Two other councilors, labor union leader Tam Yiu Chung and banker Keung Kam Chung, were also given "portfolios" for welfare and housing policies respectively.
She shattered the power of British labor unions while forcing the Labour Party to say bye-bye to nationalized industry and hello to a severely reduced welfare state and free markets.
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