Workfare is a governmental plan under which welfare recipients are required to accept public-service jobs or to participate in job training. Many countries...
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Workfare in the United Kingdom is a system of welfare regulations put into effect by UK governments at various times. Individuals subject to workfare...
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jobs are similar to workfare, but are publicly offered on the job market and have otherwise normal employment requirements. Workfare jobs, in contrast,...
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Boycott Workfare is a British campaign group that has opposed "workfare" policies in the United Kingdom. The group's campaigning has been very successful...
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Holland & Barrett (section Workfare controversy)
the first large companies to join the Work Programme, a UK government workfare scheme that ran from 2011 to 2017. Under the scheme, recipients of welfare...
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democracy and is positioned to the right of the centre-left. It supports workfare instead of welfare, work training programs, educational opportunities and...
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75. Brands 2015, pp. 179–181. Rich, Spencer (March 30, 1981). "Reagan's Workfare Program Failed in California, Report Reveals". The Washington Post. Archived...
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New Deal (United Kingdom) (category Workfare in the United Kingdom)
The New Deal (renamed Flexible New Deal from October 2009) was a workfare programme introduced in the United Kingdom by the first New Labour government...
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Argos (retailer) (section Workfare)
criticism. In 2012, Argos withdrew from its involvement in the controversial Workfare scheme introduced by Prime Minister David Cameron. Argos and its parent...
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West German vice minister of workfare, Wilhelm Claussen (left), with Paul Armegee, transport minister of Togo, in Bonn, 1961...
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attendance record with bonuses for notable achievements. It differs from workfare in that it is a voluntary, albeit highly incentivized, occupational proposal...
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Association) Welfare economics Welfare reform Welfare rights Welfare trap Workfare Except in the United States and Canada, where welfare refers only to direct...
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the church declined to hire workfare recipients as part of organized opposition to then-mayor Rudy Giuliani's workfare program. The church also hosted...
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Work Programme (category Workfare in the United Kingdom)
employers to create jobs. The anti-workfare group Boycott Workfare makes similar arguments stating that workfare replaces jobs and undermines wages....
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Technological unemployment Unemployment extension Universal basic income Waithood Workfare Youth exclusion "Unemployment rate". Our World in Data. Retrieved 7 March...
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charitable organisations that have participated in the British government's workfare programmes whereby individuals must work in return for unemployment benefits...
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highlight the benefits of free labour through work experience, called Workfare. The offending poster depicted a number of volunteer staff at the Haringey...
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King, Desmond (2007). "Making people work: Democratic consequences of workfare". In Beem, Christopher; Mead, Lawrence M. (eds.). Welfare Reform and Political...
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Right and the economic liberalism of Reaganomics, advocating tax cuts and workfare schemes. In opposition, the party advocated more protectionist measures...
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welfare state retrenchment, increasing inequality and the imposition of workfare and underpaid, precarious employment on the marginalized urban "postindustrial...
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procedures in order to ensure equitable services. The CVP also promotes workfare as the primary means to combat unemployment. Following continuing losses...
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prayer vigils to call attention to issues. It opposed Ronald Reagan's workfare initiative requiring that welfare recipients work for part of their benefits...
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Indianapolis the year after. The institute helped design Wisconsin's influential workfare program in the mid-1990s. Hudson relocated to Washington, D.C., in 2004...
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[citation needed] "Give a hand up, not a handout" is a common remark among of workfare or other welfare-to-work systems. Another dichotomy characterization is...
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ethic" by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, largely in response to the bill's workfare component. AFDC caseloads increased dramatically from the 1930s to the...
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Israel. Retrieved October 30, 2021. Bartram, David. "Cultural Dimensions of Workfare and Welfare". Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 7:3, 233–247, 2005...
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traditional social liberals and advocate some replacement of welfare with workfare, and sometimes have a stronger preference for market solutions to traditional...
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that had come to surround long-term welfare receipt. One shortcoming of workfare-based reform was that it did not take into account the fact that, due to...
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traditional social liberals and advocate some replacement of welfare with workfare and sometimes have a stronger preference for market solutions to traditional...
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