Word: workfair
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...Current "workfair" welfare programs are as ineffective and demeaning as workhouses in Victorian England, a noted progressive writer and activist said yesterday...
...Throw your spirit and energy into denouncing such programs," said Piven. She criticized a labor security bill, proposed by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), which includes a national workfair program. Such programs require participants to fulfill educational and employment requirements in order to receive payments...
...Workfair programs "call for women to attend a whole rigamorole of activities in order to collect their grants," Piven said. "They're going to make women work for their welfare benefits...
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