work programs

Job training schemes

Work programs are organized efforts providing employment, typically sponsored by governments or institutions.

They may aim to reduce unemployment, teach job skills, or require labor in exchange for benefits: The New Deal created massive public work programs, Prison work programs offer inmates job training.

The term sometimes carries political freight, associated with welfare reform or rehabilitation efforts.

Opposites
conditionality of assistance

work programswelfare checks

Visits to confirm safety

universal basic income · free money · handouts · entitlements · guaranteed income

activity vs. idleness

work programsunemployment

Being without paid work

idleness · leisure · inactivity · joblessness · doing nothing

policy philosophy

work programswelfare state

Government-funded citizen support system

laissez-faire

Family

work, programs, works, worked, working, worker, workers, workable, unworkable

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G