English-French translations for welfare state

• État-providence
  Nous avons grandi dans un État-providence. We grew up in a welfare state.
  L'État-providence était devenu intenable. The welfare states had become untenable.
  Qu’en est-il de l’abandon progressif de l’État-providence? What about the creeping abandonment of the welfare state?

Definition of welfare state

• A social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, providing health care, education, unemployment compensation and social security
• A country in which such a system operates

Related words

• welfare
• welfare trap
• welfare parasite
• welfare mother
• welfare capitalism
• welfare economics
• welfare problem
• welfare work
• child welfare