Beveridge plan

American  

noun

1. the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.

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Example Sentences

Up for debate in the House of Commons last week was Britain's hottest political issue: the Beveridge Plan to guarantee every Briton "freedom from want," "postwar social security," "provision for old age."

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This document recommended the Beveridge Plan as "a valuable aid in determining the lines on which developments and legislation should be pursued as part of the Government's policy of postwar reconstruction," but seemed to promise very little specific action.

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Only so, if at all, can returning veterans avoid the dole; only so can at least some of $2,600 million of war-built, publicly owned factories be put into peacetime production; only so can the Beveridge plan become much more than dream security.

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A fortnight ago the Berks, Bucks and Oxford Vagrancy Committee was much impressed by a miniature Beveridge Plan for tramps titled: The Rehabilitation of Britain's Hobo Population.

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But the Beveridge Plan No. 2 would provide jobs for all in a free society by what he calls "the socialization of demand."

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