workfare in English

noun
1
a welfare system that requires those receiving benefits to perform some work or to participate in job training.
The plan laid out in 1996 to change welfare to workfare recognized and provided for the critical role child care would play in transitioning from government dependency to personal responsibility.

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1. Whether workfare would provide other factors they identified is less certain.

2. And with condemnation has come repression, from increased CCTV surveillance to punitive workfare rules.

3. In the early 1930s, Roosevelt believed in "workfare" and Hoover made loans to bankers.

4. Similarly, workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health.

5. Anyway, I see where 000 welfare recipients have been put into workfare jobs in New York City.

6. Mr Lamont can forget about workfare or any other wheezes the Treasury may have dreamt up.

7. Reward work by further increasing the Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) for older workers aged above 55 and above

8. 27 Anyway, I see where 000 welfare recipients have been put into workfare jobs in New York City.

9. Given the need and the trend and the level of poverty, the advantages of the workfare program are clear.

10. Workfare systems, in which people contribute some kind of productive labor in return for public support, are certainly an alternative.

11. They should be supplemented by other transfer programs such as social pensions or workfare to provide social protection to all vulnerable groups.

12. Long-term unemployment among middle-aged professionals, who do not qualify for workfare, is on the rise, says Leong Sze Hian, a financial expert and blogger.

13. That project will assist around 000 poor households through the workfare program, and deliver unconditional cash transfers to another 000 households over 12 months.

14. With "Work First" as its principle, workfare policy has played an important role in reshaping work ethics in the west and in helping to realize self-suffi.

15. They are intended to support poor households with children, and should be supplemented by other transfer programs such as social pensions or workfare to reach all vulnerable groups.