…a system whereby the state undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits. The foundations for the modern welfare state in the UK were laid by the Beveridge Report of 1942; proposals such as the establishment of a National Health Service and the National Insurance Scheme were implemented by the Labour administration in 1948…
…organized effort to promote the basic physical and material well-being of people in need…
…a movement to change the federal government’s social welfare policy by shifting some of the responsibility to the states and cutting benefits…
…government support or subsidy of private business, such as by tax incentives…
…(in the UK) the government policy of encouraging unemployed people and others receiving state benefits to find a job, for example by paying a fee to their new employers…
