"welfare" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He described Massachusetts as "a welfare magnet" for immigrants, for example, and called Lowell "the Cambodian capital" of the United States.
- He called Massachusetts a "welfare magnet" and proposed cutting off benefits for unmarried mothers who have a second child while still on public aid.
- Better benefits for the poor in Wisconsin or Milwaukee, she said, would act as "a welfare magnet" that would attract people from states with less developed services.
- In a published interview he had questioned whether large numbers of immigrants settling in the state had turned it into a "welfare magnet."
- He picked on Cambodians, about as harmless a people as can be imagined, saying they had come to Massachusetts because it was a welfare magnet.
- "New York is no longer a welfare magnet."
- Not everyone agrees that New York was ever a "welfare magnet."
- Under the block-grant program, states will trim benefits to make sure they're not any more generous than their neighbors, worried that they'll be seen as welfare magnets.
- Opponents of this two-tier system argue that Wisconsin is not a welfare magnet and further suggest that such a system will hurt the poor.
- Gov. Tommy G. Thompson of Wisconsin, concerned that his state is becoming "a welfare magnet," has urged the Legislature to consider reducing benefits for newcomers.
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