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welfare dependence  

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  • Welfare, or public assistance—the cash income provided to low-income families—has never been popular. Especially in a market-centered society such as the United States, welfare historically has been provided most often reluctantly and always with great suspicion. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Welfare Dependence]

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