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. —

Conrad Black, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021 Job training and workfare programs have a pretty discouraging history. —

Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 25 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 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 For the last decade, the Indian government has been running a workfare program in villages throughout the country. —

Seema Jayachandran, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017