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Mr. Fischer has also said that no more Muslims should be granted citizenship because their religion says to kill Americans, and that welfare recipients "rut like rabbits" because of what he calls welfare's perverse incentives.
NYT > Home Page By ERIK ECKHOLM 2011
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Mr. Fischer has also said that no more Muslims should be granted citizenship because their religion says to kill Americans, and that welfare recipients "rut like rabbits" because of what he calls welfare's perverse incentives.
NYT > Home Page By ERIK ECKHOLM 2011
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Others predict that welfare's reach will be narrowed further.
Welfare's safety net hard to measure among states Amy Goldstein 2010
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But, because we as a society accept as fact that such an investment is politically impossible, we will continue to settle on trading the safety of our children against child welfare's ability to maximize limited resources.
Daniel Heimpel: The Future of Foster Care: Are We Too Cheap to Keep Children Safe? Daniel Heimpel 2011
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But, because we as a society accept as fact that such an investment is politically impossible, we will continue to settle on trading the safety of our children against child welfare's ability to maximize limited resources.
Daniel Heimpel: The Future of Foster Care: Are We Too Cheap to Keep Children Safe? Daniel Heimpel 2011
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Once seen as child welfare's necessary evil -- pretty places to send your delinquents -- RTCs are now commonly viewed as statistically dubious money pits.
DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 6, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2011
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This is welfare's holy grail, a policy that possesses miraculous powers to re-energise jobless people's willingness to work, breaking them from a so-called debilitating addiction.
Benefits reform cannot be a one-size-fits-all policy Randeep Ramesh 2010
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In a uniquely American perversion of the concept of "welfare," the NYTimes reports, using one woman's search for childcare as an example, "Her effort to avoid welfare through work has brought her to welfare's door."
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We've been giving him consular assistance, Peter Gray, doing our best to make sure that his welfare's looked after.
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The most profound change in social policy in a generation was set in motion not only by Clinton's 1992 campaign promise to "" end welfare as we know it '' but by welfare's unambiguous failure.
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