workfare
Welfare requiring jobs
Workfare is a system requiring welfare recipients to work or participate in job training as a condition of receiving benefits.
The term blends work and welfare, reflecting the policy's aim to move people from public assistance into employment: The state implemented workfare programs in the 1990s.
Critics argue workfare provides cheap labor without meaningful job skills; supporters see it as reducing dependency.
Selfish use of others
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- stigmatizationMarking as disgraceful
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- punitiveInflicting or intending penalty
paternalism · dignity · rights · sanctions · poverty · inequality · precarity · churning
Contingent on financial status
- public assistanceGovernment help for poor
- social securityPublic financial protection programs
- unemployment benefitPayment to jobless workers
- time limitsAllotted duration caps
sanctions · eligibility · compliance · caseload · recipient · claimant · entitlement · dependency
Employment supply and demand
- employmentPaid occupation status
- productivityOutput relative to input
- incentiveReward encouraging action
- human capitalWorkers' skills and knowledge
labor supply · wage subsidy · displacement · deadweight · cost-benefit · efficiency · participation rate · poverty trap
Teaching skills for employment
- community serviceUnpaid labor benefiting society
- job readinessPreparedness for employment
- skill developmentAcquiring new abilities
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
internship · job search assistance · career counseling · resume building · mentoring · occupational training
exploitation
Selfish use of others
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- stigmatizationMarking as disgraceful
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
punitive · paternalism · dignity · rights · sanctions · poverty · inequality · precarity · churning · creaming
means-tested
Contingent on financial status
- public assistanceGovernment help for poor
- social securityPublic financial protection programs
- unemployment benefitPayment to jobless workers
time limits · sanctions · eligibility · compliance · caseload · recipient · claimant · entitlement · dependency · self-sufficiency
labor market
Employment supply and demand
- employmentPaid occupation status
- productivityOutput relative to input
- incentiveReward encouraging action
human capital · labor supply · wage subsidy · displacement · deadweight · cost-benefit · efficiency · participation rate · poverty trap · marginal tax rate
job training
Teaching skills for employment
- community serviceUnpaid labor benefiting society
- job readinessPreparedness for employment
- skill developmentAcquiring new abilities
apprenticeship · internship · job search assistance · career counseling · resume building · mentoring · occupational training
- welfareSNAP benefits, public assistance, food stamps, poor law, TANF
- welfare historypoor laws, poorhouse, poorhouses, workhouse, workhouses
- welfare statesocial safety net, safety net, public benefits, social services, social programs
- unemploymentunemployment, unemployed, jobless, joblessness, unemployment rate
- policiespolicy, act, code of conduct, public policy, terms of service
- job trainingjob training, apprenticeships, vocational schools, vocational school, mentoring
workfareuniversal basic income
Guaranteed payments to all
UBI · guaranteed income · basic income · free money · entitlement programs
work, worker, fare, working, works, welfare, workers, worked, farewell