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Filtered through inexpert organizations, pumped up with more money than anyone knew how to spend, and pressed with demands for immediate results, Clinton’s drive to help women sometimes produced meaningless make-work with few long-term results.
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Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
For those who can’t or won’t head West, the alternative games offer a make-work project for athletes to continue in some kind of competition, and also to earn money to keep going.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2024
But social make-work projects don’t improve American living standards.
—Allysia Finley, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
New Deal relief and make-work programs provided something of a cushion for many destitute Americans who might now treat themselves to a small indulgence.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
For those who can’t or won’t head West, the alternative games offer a make-work project for athletes to continue in some kind of competition, and also to earn money to keep going.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2024
But social make-work projects don’t improve American living standards.
—Allysia Finley, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
New Deal relief and make-work programs provided something of a cushion for many destitute Americans who might now treat themselves to a small indulgence.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
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“Make-work.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make-work. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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