income maintenance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of income maintenance
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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He wrote to state social services director Karen Timberlake and invited the state to take over the county’s income maintenance program.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2014
The first is income maintenance; the second is broader and deeper unemployment compensation; the third is a greatly expanded job-training program.
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Marshall also denounced existing job-training programs as mere "income maintenance plans that leave participants with no skills."
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As for reforming or replacing the welfare system, the estimates for the various income maintenance schemes that have been proposed run as high as $30 billion per year.
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On the whole, the committee saw "great progress" toward solving the problem of "income maintenance in old age."
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