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What is workfare?

What is workfare? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US) A form of welfare in which people are required to work as a condition of receiving aid
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In the opinion of these PEP researchers, an independent agency, not the executive branch of the government, should manage workfare funds.
The key element in the Harris governments reforms was a mandatory workfare program for employable individuals.
Modelled along the lines of US workfare programmes, the New Deal was initially targeted at the young unemployed aged 18 to 24 years and the long-term jobless.
In functional terms, workfare naturalizes and normalizes such job market conditions.
Therefore, he argues, it is a disguised form of workfare as it will require people to work before they get welfare benefits.
Welfare recipients are to face new coercive measures to force them into workfare or to accept cheap labor jobs.

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