She is worried that the "balance has shifted too far in the direction on cuts and not enough focus on getting welfare reform right".
The government appears ready to concede on income-support benefit (currently young Italians who have never worked have no right to welfare payments).
ECONOMIST: The government tries one more time, but it will be hard
Far from discouraging work, the right kind of welfare can do just the opposite.
But the coalition government had already brought in radical welfare reform and "the right thing to do" was to let them "bed in before we take further decisions".
He said government was "making the system more affordable" and "better able to tackle unemployment and welfare dependency and creating the right incentives by ensuring work always pays".
His bill aims to introduce a Welfare Cash Card to encourage responsible spending by benefit claimants, and it mainlines right into the current row over welfare spending - and the strivers vs skivers meme that Conservatives are campaigning on.
At the end of the show, the state welfare officials insisted they had done the right thing by seizing the children.
Mr Lafontaine pledged to roll back the (modest) cuts in social welfare made by the previous centre-right government, make energy dearer, close tax loopholes misused by the rich, and boost domestic demand to create jobs.
Making revenue sharing work requires the right incentives, not a pure welfare state like Major League Baseball has, where some clubs are essentially rewarded for failure.
With welfare reform, recipients would no longer have a right to government benefits.
Welfare reform was once regarded as a harsh, right-wing, America-only idea.
And from that perspective, I thank you and hope that you will enjoy the fulfilling experience during your visit of visiting Moneygall, where some of your ancestors contributed to the welfare and the well-being of that little village right in the center of Ireland.
The idea appeals to populists on the left and the right, as a blow to special interests and corporate welfare.
The welfare reform legislation of the 1990s was a small step in the right direction because it eliminated a federal entitlement and shifted responsibility back to the state level.
Religious tempers had been calmed, government functioning made more transparent (through the right to information law), and a series of welfare measures for the rural poor (pre-eminently, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme) initiated.
Carlos Larrain, head of the conservative National Renewal party, said a Bachelet candidacy "will be healthy for the system" by giving voters a choice between the social welfare policies of her previous term and those of Pinera's right-of-center government.
Under the Tories, ministers railed at the difficulty of getting welfare reforms through the Lords, but they never questioned the Lords' right to vote against the government.
The prime minister has suggested that people under the age of 25 could lose the right to housing benefit, as part of moves to cut the welfare bill.
And it's interesting, Steve, because, you know, Tommy Thompson's the kind of candidate who on paper looks just right: a successful governor of a Midwestern state, Wisconsin, enacted welfare reform in a way that was highly regarded, came to the cabinet in health care, a subject that people care a great deal about.
The right policy is a growing economy, non-burdensome immigration laws, a welfare system which promotes work, not dependency, and a culture of assimilation, not isolation.
If the government is right to believe that it would save hundreds of millions of pounds by automating welfare payments, it would make sense to provide the necessary support itself, and openly.
Another view of Mr Cameron's welfare sally is that it was less bold thinking than cheap politics, designed to cheer the Tory right and turn the screws on Labour.
He argues that the centre left should not copy the right, because limiting immigration is not a simple task over the long term, and because limiting welfare payments for foreigners tends to end up in court challenges.
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