English-Spanish translations for welfare state

• estado de bienestar
  El Estado de bienestar y la seguridad social están en crisis. The welfare state and social security are in crisis.
  ¿Qué hay del sigiloso abandono del estado de bienestar? What about the creeping abandonment of the welfare state?
  Tenemos que fijarnos en las posibilidades de empleo desde el punto de vista del Estado de bienestar. We need to look at employability as far as the welfare state is concerned.

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