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Social welfare   /sˈoʊʃəl wˈɛlfˌɛr/   Listen
Social welfare

noun
1.
Governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need.  Synonyms: public assistance, welfare.





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"Social welfare" Quotes from Famous Books



... W.L. Harvey does the ploughing of the patches for him. Al has cataracts on his eyes and can do no work. Since this story was written he has received his first old age pension check of eight dollars from the Social Welfare Board ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration
... bearers of one Church gave to the Committee particulars of several recent cases which had come to their notice in the ordinary course of their social welfare work (two of them girls who had become pregnant before their sixteenth birthdays). These were cases which had not been investigated by the police. It was also the conclusion of these Church officers that the cases which ...
— Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents - The Mazengarb Report (1954) • Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.


Words linked to "Social welfare" :   financial aid, aid, public assistance, economic aid, dole, social insurance, pogy, pogey, welfare, relief


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