Citations:welfariat

English citations of welfariat

Noun: "(politics, pejorative) the class of people who live on welfare payments"

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• 1985 — Alfred Sherman, "Blind spots in the SDP's vision", The Guardian, 11 November 1985:

  The one-parent family, or to be more precise fatherless children, often illegitimate children born into the welfariat are a major source of inner-city blight.

• 1992 — Sung-Moon Pae, Korea Leading Developing Nations: Economy, Democracy & Welfare, University Press of America (1992), →ISBN, page 188:

  They were the welfariat of pensioners, the unemployed and the unemployable.

• 1992 — W. F. Deedes, "An opportunity today which many not come again", The Telegraph, 9 April 1992:

  It left me cool to lamentations here about underfunding of our National Health Service or the shortcomings of our colossal welfariat.

• 1994 — Work and Employment in Liberal Democratic Societies (ed. David Marsland), Paragon House (1994), →ISBN, page 186:

  The new proles, the welfariat, are the products of social engineering and 1960's morality.

• 2002 — Jan Keller, "Education for Regional Sustainable Development", in Ecological Education in Everyday Life: Alpha 2000 (ed. Jean-Paul Hautecoeur), University of Toronto Press (2002), →ISBN, page 115:

  People become dependent on a constantly growing bureaucratic machine. They find it difficult to reconstruct a valid identity, and increasingly turning into a 'welfariat'.

• 2005 — Alfred Sherman, "Full of Sound and Fury", The Salisbury Review, Summer 2005:

  Can we sustain a welfariat of its present size without serious economic, social and political consequences?

• 2009 — Don't Fence Me In: Essays on the Rational Truant (eds. Michael Conolly & Dennis O'Keeffe), University of Buckingham Press (2009), →ISBN:

  It might be worth investigating whether truancy varies systematically as between the children of the "welfariat", […]

• 2010 — Dennis O'Keeffe, History Lesson: A Race Odyssey review, The Salisbury Review, Spring 2010:

  The liberals want the black welfariat in particular not to grasp that most black Americans have joined the affluent majority and that American blacks are the world's richest black population.