THE WELFARE STATE

THE WELFARE STATE

    A welfare state is a concept of government where the state plays the primary role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens.The BBC article is comparing the poverty rate with other countries and Britain has remained stubbornly high.

    The system of "cradle to grave" was devised  in 1940. It had been written by Sir William Beveridge, a highly regarded economist and expert on unemployment problems.




REFERENCES:
www.bbcnews.co.uk