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We must also ensure that, while we work to reduce the deficit over the long-term, we protect the important social safety-nets for children.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen: Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty Rep. Chris Van Hollen 2012
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The vulnerable, without the safety-nets, would die prematurely, as bizzrobrain has pointed out.
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We must also ensure that, while we work to reduce the deficit over the long-term, we protect the important social safety-nets for children.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen: Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty Rep. Chris Van Hollen 2012
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We must also ensure that, while we work to reduce the deficit over the long-term, we protect the important social safety-nets for children.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen: Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty Rep. Chris Van Hollen 2012
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Hopefully we can each join with family, friends and colleagues to form our own safety-nets and personalized economic programs.
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Social safety-nets are still inadequate, so Chinese families have to cover the costs of health care, education and retirement.
Archive 2009-11-01 Robert Reich 2009
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Social safety-nets are still inadequate, so Chinese families have to cover the costs of health care, education and retirement.
Obama, China, and Wishful Thinking About American Jobs Robert Reich 2009
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What this eventually means is that the numbers of poor, homeless, and incidences of spousal/family and substance abuse will all go up in a province ideologically and culturally tied to rugged individualism and an aversion to social safety-nets.
More Edmonton Panhandling, or, WKOFIT? Boris 2009
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Social safety-nets are still inadequate, so Chinese families have to cover the costs of health care, education and retirement.
Robert Reich: Obama, China, and Wishful Thinking About American Jobs 2009
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What this eventually means is that the numbers of poor, homeless, and incidences of spousal/family and substance abuse will all go up in a province ideologically and culturally tied to rugged individualism and an aversion to social safety-nets.
Archive 2009-01-01 Edstock 2009
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