In its first ten years, the national population on welfare dropped by two-thirds, and the incomes of those former welfare families increased by 25%.
Electrical power is necessary to support other critical infrastructures, including supply and distribution of water, food, fuel, communications, transport, financial transactions, emergency services, government services, and all other infrastructures supporting the national economy and welfare.
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We will have a lot to say about the scheme in the weeks ahead, because, like it or not, taxes are vitally important determinants of national even social welfare, not to mention of the lifestyle and mentality of individuals.
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Currently he said, local authorities were reimbursed for any unforeseen expenditure and government grant met the full cost of the benefit scheme, as part of the overall national scheme of welfare benefits, which was the responsibility of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Cambodia's national children's welfare office says the number of foreign adoptions tripled in 1999, yet there is no shortage of destitute new-borns.
In December it announced that state-owned enterprises under the central government would remain in control of industrial sectors considered crucial to national security and economic welfare: military equipment, electric power, oil and petrochemicals, telecommunications, coal, aviation and shipping.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has said cyber-attacks could become a major threat to the country's economic welfare and its national infrastructure, such as electricity grids.
Perhaps more importantly, ministers who are charged with delivering national programmes, such as welfare-to-work and skills training, have yet to be convinced that de-centralised mechanisms such as regional agencies are the best way to achieve them.
Two years ago, from this podium, I asked five companies to lead a national effort to hire people off welfare.
The "Ramos people" include three heavyweights: Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (doubling as social welfare secretary), National Security Adviser Alexander Aguirre and incumbent Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon Jr.
Most obviously the Attlee government of 1945-51 created the National Health Service and vastly expanded the welfare state.
Will says the welfare state has lowered our national pain threshold.
The Isle of Man is currently in the middle of a national debate about the future of the welfare system which the Manx government believes is no longer fit for purpose.
While big government science and investment is a bipartisan passion now, the tone had been different in the mid-1990s, when Congress sought to reduce government with sweeping proposals like privatizing national labs and curbing business and corporate welfare.
They experimented with welfare reform in the early 1990s, lobbied for it at national level and, once Congress had seen the light, implemented the reforms that have moved half of welfare recipients into jobs.
But many Canadians oppose any assault on their welfare state, and especially their national health service (known as Medicare).
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Against his party's national policies, he worries about curbs on welfare benefits and favours an amnesty for some illegal migrants.
The repercussions of this affair are likely to poison European-American trade relations and expose the administration to accusations of corporate welfare for America's aerospace national champion.
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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And the National Governors' Association said the requirement would push welfare payments above current levels.
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And many more desire a strong United Nations which is capable of promoting global welfare as well as regulating trans-national corporations.
The tax return listed about 70 grants, many to conventional New York City-area health and social welfare charities but also a smattering of national nonprofits.
Clawback dates back to the creation of the welfare state, and the start of the National Insurance scheme in 1948.
It aims to rein in spending-- and that includes welfare benefits-- to tackle a high national debt and low economic growth.
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Because the match against Wales falls only two weeks after the National Provincial Championship final, there were issues of player welfare and workload.
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Last April the federal government transferred responsibility for welfare payments from the provinces to a new national body called the South African Social Security Agency.
The social welfare system was likened to foreign relations and national security, as something on which the whole society should be able to come together and support as a kind of national duty.
One study found that in a community where a casino was located, there was a 12% to 17% drop in welfare payments and another study commissioned by the National Research Council found a net economic gain to some of these same communities.
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Besides, in the welfare bill passed last summer, when the national system of income support was handed over to the states, the states were explicitly allowed to contract out this programme to firms who could decide who was eligible and who was not.
He played a role in the 1996 welfare reform debate but doesn't have a national profile.
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