Welfare

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Welfare may refer to:

• Well being, quality of lifestyle
  • Animal welfare, the quality of life of animals, and concerns thereabout
• Welfare, a film directed by Frederick Wiseman

In economics:

• Social welfare, government programs that seek to provide a minimum level of income, service or other support for certain people.
• Welfare (financial aid), financial assistance paid by taxpayers to people who are unable or unwilling to support themselves, cf. Workfare, an alternative model requiring recipients to participate in work-rehabilitation programs,
  • Corporate welfare, a term describing a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations
• Welfare state, in which the state assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens beyond a minimum level
• Welfare economics, determines allocative efficiency and the income distribution within an economy; see also, Social welfare function
• Social security, social welfare service concerned with social protection

[edit] See also

• Administration of federal assistance in the United States
• Affordable housing
• Canada Pension Plan
• Disability pension
• Folkhemmet
• Government spending
• Guaranteed minimum income
• Income Support
• National Health Service
• Poverty in the United States
• Social insurance
• Social safety net
• Social work, a profession intrinsically involved in the provision of welfare
• Subsidized housing

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