Contrary to the fears of many social-policy wonks, life after welfare generally seems to involve a job.
Instead of a way of life, welfare became an offer of temporary help, not an entitlement but a transition.
First, we must find new ways of tackling poverty and inequality, and that means dealing with the fact that life on welfare benefits is not easy.
And since the government would have been defeated on welfare by the votes of life peers alone, it is clear that not all this animus is directed at the hereditaries.
His keenest instinct is to preserve the French way of life, with its social welfare model.
In my opinion, a man in public life must think always of the public welfare.
What Rudy Giuliani did to improve quality-of-life conditions and to decrease crime and welfare dependency is well- known.
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.
The toxic combination of rising women's unemployment, cuts to welfare and the ever-increasing cost of living in the capital means that life for London's women is going to get tougher.
Mr Duncan Smith's overarching message is that cultural change is required - both in the minds of those on benefits and in government - so that the welfare system is a springboard into work, rather than something which traps people into a life of dependency.
What is more, it strikes me as perfectly possible that the overall welfare of a wild seal, suddenly killed on an ice floe, is better than the life endured by an intensively reared farm animal killed on a production line after being driven to an abattoir on a lorry.
Mr Hagen, meanwhile, has both pandered to anti-immigrant sentiment and cast himself as the defender of the creaking but familiar welfare, education and health systems: in sum, here is the defender of the Norwegian way of life.
An argument popular among philosophers is that, as long as the child's life is of acceptable quality, it is irrational to use arguments based on the child's welfare.
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