Everywhere, an ageing population is starting to stretch the capacity of the welfare state.
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This is the week that the new and much meaner British Welfare State comes into being.
Likewise, our welfare state needs to be reformed in order for it to survive.
They seek to reform the reforms that brought us the welfare state to begin with.
The central dynamic of the welfare state is constant redistribution and political reallocation of resources.
He returned to help adapt the American independent living model to Britain's welfare state.
Germany is both greying (which will make its welfare state less affordable) and becoming more colourful.
But the welfare state does indeed exist in America and that it does redistributes wealth.
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Such support would make no sense for anyone favoring expansion of the welfare state.
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It's a complex picture, but at its core is the high-tax welfare state run amok.
The debate about the labour agency could also spill into other parts of the welfare state.
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But others might say it was a debate about the nature of the welfare state.
Both main blocs campaigned on a promise of strengthening the welfare state and social justice.
Norman's critique of the welfare state was inspired by a similar belief in individualism.
Its welfare state represents a defensible political choice for a country of yawning inequalities.
As to what they would have made of the modern welfare state, who can tell?
The 1945 election has been seen as showing a broad consensus behind the post-war welfare state.
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Moreover, the warfare state is no less expensive and no more affordable than the welfare state.
But dismantling the welfare state, or even slimming it down, is not on her agenda.
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The welfare state, you might say, is in that sense working all too well.
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Europe cannot afford the welfare state it has embraced over the past 50 years.
The reformers are seen as saboteurs of the welfare state, rather than its long-term saviours.
The modern social welfare state was invented by Otto von Bismarck in the mid-19th century.
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This is the same moral perspective that is at the root of every other welfare state program.
And, as you can see from this chart (click to enlarge), the French welfare state is enormous.
Will Europeans accept that, in order to compete, their welfare state will need significant and painful reform?
The welfare state is a good idea, the only question is who can administer it more effectively.
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The welfare state takes care the non-productive forces of society, the old, the sick and the disable.
Yet for a Social Democratic party traditionally wedded to fortifying the welfare state, they constitute a mini-revolution.
Several factors lie behind Mr Fogh Rasmussen's popularity, but the most surprising may be the welfare state.
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