It is actually a tragedy that Japanese society took the Bismarckian path of state welfare.
Most live in poor black townships or shanty towns, ineligible for state welfare.
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Singapore has concluded that we cannot afford European-style state welfare, not because of dogma, but because our circumstances are different.
At the end of the show, the state welfare officials insisted they had done the right thing by seizing the children.
In contrast, expanding state welfare would tilt the balance between state and market toward more government power and less individual responsibility.
But dramatic shifts in federal and state welfare policy over the past decade mean that far more of the poor now work.
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The authors correctly point out that it is difficult to blame declining trade unionism and a diminished public appetite for welfare on the pressures, real or imagined, of globalisation: America is, after all, far less globalised (in terms of the share of its economy accounted for by trade) than many European economies with broader state welfare.
And all of a sudden that big ball, the baby boomers, are going from being the payers of the welfare state to the consumers of the welfare state.
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We also focus on those social entrepreneurs that do not do what the welfare state is doing, but rather what the welfare state should be doing, or providing complimentary services to such a state.
If the argument is that illegal immigrants are overtaxing the welfare state, then that's an argument for paring back the welfare state, not deporting 12 million people.
Building a welfare state in any one of them is a bit like creating a single welfare state across the European Union.
Where after the war Attlee established the case for the NHS, state education and a welfare state, Thatcher, after the industrial wars of the 70s and the Cold War, won the arguments for a market-based economy, the private ownership of key industries and services, limits on trade union power and a strong defence policy based on the Atlantic Alliance.
Third, separate the state of economic opportunity from the welfare state.
That undershoot was largely due to lower-than-expected spending on social security payments, which departments cannot easily control (though the Secretary of State for Welfare and Pensions would say he has helped to keep unemployment down.) But ministers have also over-delivered when it comes to squeezing administrative budgets.
Moreover, the warfare state is no less expensive and no more affordable than the welfare state.
The basic state pension, first introduced in 1908, is one of the sacred cows of Britain's welfare state.
Everywhere, an ageing population is starting to stretch the capacity of the welfare state.
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This is the week that the new and much meaner British Welfare State comes into being.
Likewise, our welfare state needs to be reformed in order for it to survive.
They seek to reform the reforms that brought us the welfare state to begin with.
The central dynamic of the welfare state is constant redistribution and political reallocation of resources.
He returned to help adapt the American independent living model to Britain's welfare state.
Germany is both greying (which will make its welfare state less affordable) and becoming more colourful.
But the welfare state does indeed exist in America and that it does redistributes wealth.
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Such support would make no sense for anyone favoring expansion of the welfare state.
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It's a complex picture, but at its core is the high-tax welfare state run amok.
The debate about the labour agency could also spill into other parts of the welfare state.
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But others might say it was a debate about the nature of the welfare state.
Both main blocs campaigned on a promise of strengthening the welfare state and social justice.
Norman's critique of the welfare state was inspired by a similar belief in individualism.
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