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 provision, government programs which seek to provide a minimum level of income, service or other support for disadvantaged peoples
- Welfare (financial aid), financial assistance paid by taxpayers to people who are unable to support themselves, cf. Workfare, an alternative model requiring recipients to participate in work-rehabilitation programs,
- Corporate welfare, a pejorative 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
- Corporate welfare
- Disability pension
- Folkhemmet
- Government spending
- Guaranteed minimum income
- Income Support
- National Health Service
- Pauper's oath
- Social insurance
- Social safety net
- Social security
- Social work, a profession intrinsically involved in the provision of welfare
- Subsidized housing
- Welfare state

