The Welfare State is paid for from taxation. When most people work or purchase goods or services a proportion of the money goes to the government to pay for healthcare, education and many other ...

promoted better education and housing, and sought to deliver on the explicit commitment to "full employment." All of this added up to what the Laborites were to call the welfare state -- and they ...

The beginnings of the modern welfare state can be traced back to this period. In terms of medical care the most important of these reforms was the National Insurance Scheme, established by David ...