Over the years, American companies have built a pretty extensive social safety net for their workers.

It called for government intervention in the economy and provided a social safety net.

But then in Japan there was never much of a social safety net to begin with.

These efforts form part of a social safety net that no city can survive without.

Though 74 percent consider themselves middle-class, they often fall through the social safety net.

Supporters of such laws say they provide workers with a social safety net.

France's social safety net is less safe than ever these days.

In a sense, its past explains the country's social safety net.

They support the very fibers of the social safety net.

"The big question is, What kind of social safety net do we have?"