It's the government's own term, used by nonpartisan entities like the CBO. If anything, "welfare" is now used as a more politically loaded term. It's almost ne

It's the government's own term, used by nonpartisan entities like the CBO. If anything, "welfare" is now used as a more politically loaded term. It's almost never used anymore without attaching a negative connotation -- whether by the right in the old way, or by the left when decrying "corporate welfare".