As social affairs minister, Tutut will be key in executing government aid and social welfare programs.
Longer term, everyone knows that correcting government finances requires reforms to both social welfare programs and taxes.
The military was given new roles in administration and in social welfare programs.
Send a Detroit car over there and they slap on the use tax, which goes to pay for their social welfare programs.
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.
So if sequestration is actually triggered on March 1 as currently planned, it will have the perverse effect of increasing the share of the federal budget allocated to social welfare programs.
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His is acute in pointing out that the debate over raising the consumption tax to fund old age social welfare programs is missing the critical issue which must be to restore economic growth.
What the charts vividly illustrate is that old age social welfare programs and interest and principal payment on debt, even at close ultra-low interest rates, account for close to 70 percent of national government spending in Japan.
The moral hazard embedded in the explosion of social-welfare programs is plain.
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The new, reformed programs would actually achieve all of the social welfare goals of the current programs far more effectively, ultimately serving seniors and the poor far better.
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It should be immediately apparent that implementing this policy will require fundamental changes in welfare and social security programs, and in all three of the big old age programs, both on the spending side and the revenue side.
In our generous society, the bottom fifth does receive a lot of transfer income from government programs, such as Social Security retirement and disability payments, federal, state and local welfare programs, education assistance, etc.
For better or worse, Social Security combines a retirement plan with several welfare programs.
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The two biggest domestic programs provide middle class welfare: Social Security and Medicare.
Spending for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the income security programs (mostly welfare), will consume 95% of all federal revenues.
The string of measures was a strange mixture of well-meaning steps at social reform, half-baked schemes for quasi-socialist industrial planning, regulation to protect consumers, welfare programs to help the hardest hit, government support for the cartelization of industry, higher wages for some, lower wages for others, on the one hand government pump priming, on the other public economy.
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