workfare
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈwɜrkˌfɛr/
- Specialized
- In order to receive welfare benefits, participants must engage in activities as part of the workfare program.
- Schumpeterian workfare
- workfare state
Examples
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Economists and business faculty could study "workfare" issues—particularly at the community college level where many welfare students attempt to renew a career.
Academic text (1997) -
So the basic gist of the Clinton welfare reforms were we're going to use sort of a more workfare approach than a pure welfare cash transfer approach.
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Nor is this to suggest that mandatory workfare is the solution.
Academic text (1993) -
Interesting question: why is WPA good, and workfare bad?
Blog text (31) -
Ronald Reagan's greatest domestic legacy, despite his tax cuts, was not to reduce government; it was to start changing welfare into workfare.
Academic text (1991) -
Investments in human capital (education, retraining), workfare schemes, and similar measures could be either.
Academic text (1993) -
Recent measures such as workfare or reformed schools are attempts to stimulate the poor, not to curb the rich.
Academic text (1991) -
At the same time, the workfare state offers only a minimum of protection for people's existential needs; otherwise, they are handed over to private charitable organizations (Jones, 2001).
Academic text (2018) -
Why is it reasonable, fair, or wise to exempt the remaining 39,000 welfare households from workfare participation just because an extra 120 have left the rolls?
Blog text (2) -
The new makeshift workfare scheme, Programa Intensivo en Mano de Obra, Labor Intensive Program, PIMO, paid thirty-six dollars a month after discounting social security contributions.
Academic text (1992)
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Morphology
Etymology
Workfare joins work and welfare, where welfare means 'help from the government' and work means 'doing a job'. So workfare is welfare you get only if you do some work, which is why it describes programs that require people to work to receive benefits.