Government jobs program

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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Mr Lamont can forget about workfare or any other wheezes the Treasury may have dreamt up. ▪ Similarly, workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health. ▪ Whether workfare would ...

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n. (context US English) A form of welfare in which people are required to work as a condition of receiving aid

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Workfare is an alternative model to conventional social welfare systems. The term was first introduced by civil rights leader James Charles Evers in 1968; however, it was popularized by Richard Nixon in a televised speech August 1969. An early model of ...