workfare
noun
work·fare
ˈwərk-ˌfer 
: a welfare program in which recipients are required to perform usually public-service work
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But they were employed no more legitimately, and less usefully, than the New Deal workfare participants.
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Conrad Black, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
Job training and workfare programs have a pretty discouraging history.
—Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Apr. 2018
Among these are workfare schemes, pensions, free school meals and cash handouts, sometimes conditional on recipients sending their children to school, getting them vaccinated and the like.
—The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
Though still high, deprivation has fallen by nearly half — not least in places like Siklosnagyfalu, where villagers benefit from their workfare wages.
—Patrick Kingsley and Benjamin Novak, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
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Conrad Black, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
Job training and workfare programs have a pretty discouraging history.
—Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Apr. 2018
Among these are workfare schemes, pensions, free school meals and cash handouts, sometimes conditional on recipients sending their children to school, getting them vaccinated and the like.
—The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
Though still high, deprivation has fallen by nearly half — not least in places like Siklosnagyfalu, where villagers benefit from their workfare wages.
—Patrick Kingsley and Benjamin Novak, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
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“Workfare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workfare. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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