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NEWS ABOUT: welfare state

welfare state stories: 2 news summaries
OPINION

Reform's Biggest Hurdle: White America's Fear


Sep 15, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The hallmark diversity of the United States is the biggest obstacle to a “federal social insurance system”—health care included, writes Michael Lind on Slate. The greatest strides toward a European-style safety net were made between World War I and the 1970s “when the foreign-born percentage of... More »

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immigration • racism • health care reform • ethnic diversity • elite • President Obama • welfare state • Michael Lind • homogenous • social democracy

OPINION

 Happy Denmark Bucks 
 Fate of Ex-World Powers 

Former conquerors quite happy with perfect welfare state

Sep 5, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Denmark has bucked the trend of former world powers—“expand, overreach, then decay, their martial spirit dimmed, their peoples left to recount old glories and wonder at times past,” Denny Woodkin writes on Splice Today. Instead of muttering about what could have been, the Danes have developed “... More »

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Denmark • Copenhagen • wind power • socialized medicine • Danish • welfare state • Christiana • world power

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