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The program provides a safety net for people who have lost their jobs.
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Democrats have attacked these anti-fraud policies as an effort to undermine safety net programs for the impoverished.
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
Tax-exempt hospitals in Minnesota that have raked in large sums of revenue from a government safety net program spent tens of millions of dollars overseas over the past fiscal year, raising alarm among watchdogs monitoring the flow of cash in the nonprofit healthcare sector.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2026
Congress today took a big step toward passing the first Farm Bill since 2018 with the House approval of a package of bills that provides a safety net for the rural economy, approves public nutrition programs, and funds a suite of farm-country conservation practices.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
McKenna, working this time without the safety net of direct source material, has composed a shiny soap-bubble satire of a doom-laden cultural and journalistic landscape.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
Tax-exempt hospitals in Minnesota that have raked in large sums of revenue from a government safety net program spent tens of millions of dollars overseas over the past fiscal year, raising alarm among watchdogs monitoring the flow of cash in the nonprofit healthcare sector.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2026
Congress today took a big step toward passing the first Farm Bill since 2018 with the House approval of a package of bills that provides a safety net for the rural economy, approves public nutrition programs, and funds a suite of farm-country conservation practices.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
McKenna, working this time without the safety net of direct source material, has composed a shiny soap-bubble satire of a doom-laden cultural and journalistic landscape.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Safety net.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/safety%20net. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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