As social affairs minister, Tutut will be key in executing government aid and social welfare programs.
For better or worse, Social Security combines a retirement plan with several welfare programs.
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We should also terminate all corporate welfare programs, such as the Overseas Private Investment Corp.
Thus, the debate became not only one about taxes, but vaguely about welfare programs in general.
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After coming to power in 1999, Chavez focused on developing welfare programs for the poor.
There is an alphabet soup of welfare programs that create disincentive to seek gainful employment.
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Longer term, everyone knows that correcting government finances requires reforms to both social welfare programs and taxes.
But there are 184 additional federal, means-tested welfare programs, most jointly financed and administered with the states.
Why go this route instead of just beefing up traditional welfare programs and going with simple transfers?
In Argentina, for example, the former Venezuelan Ambassador, Roger Capella, personally supervised welfare programs paid for by Caracas.
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As is the case with every welfare program, EU welfare programs have a temporary simulative effect on the economy.
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On the other hand, I tend to think that many libertarians are short-sighted when it comes to welfare programs.
As we strengthen and improve welfare programs for those who need them, we eliminate welfare for those who don't.
This can cause amusement in measuring the success of welfare programs for example.
The military was given new roles in administration and in social welfare programs.
Either you supply more grains for welfare programs or keep huge inventories, there is a high cost involved in all.
There are two primary welfare programs in the United States, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
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It would be a genuine contest between big government liberalism and small government conservatism: Clinton's internationalism and support for welfare programs vs.
Send a Detroit car over there and they slap on the use tax, which goes to pay for their social welfare programs.
She just questions whether 1.5 billion should be diverted from welfare programs.
The moral hazard embedded in the explosion of social-welfare programs is plain.
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He also called for sending all federal welfare programs back to the states with the same welfare block grant reforms adopted in 1996.
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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Beijing plans to raise the government spending on social welfare programs by two percentage points within next five years, from 12% to 14%.
With its struggling economy and sizeable elderly population, social welfare programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are top of mind to Florida voters.
There are all too many Americans that have taken the bait offered by our myriad of welfare programs, and have self-selected into learned helplessness and lifetime dependency.
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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.
Entitlement reforms should be based on extending the enormously successful, bipartisan, 1996 AFDC block grant reforms to all federal, means tested, welfare programs, including Medicaid and food stamps.
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That will primarily involve block granting dozens of federal means tested welfare programs back to the states, modeled on the enormously successful 1996 reforms of the old AFDC program.
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As other states wait it out, the successes or failures of the programs in Florida and Arizona may provide a roadmap for other states seeking to redefine their welfare programs.
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