Government measures of welfare dependence include welfare benefits associated with work.

"The best way to end welfare dependence is with a paying job," she said.

Welfare-to-work programs aim to break the cycle of poverty in which welfare dependence can become a way of life.

They say intelligence also predicts crime rates, welfare dependence, poor parenting and indifference to civic responsibility.

By strengthening the requirements to keep children in school, the cycle of welfare dependence could be broken, he said.

Many either dropped in status to the working poor or fell into permanent reliance on welfare dependence.

The term Girocheque quickly became associated with welfare dependence.

The public seems to think that welfare dependence has been on the rise.

Max Hastings has blamed a culture of welfare dependence.

The organization focuses on personal freedom and personal responsibility as solutions to poverty, rather than welfare dependence.