We should be wary of excessive eagerness to embrace workfare and similar programs as a panacea.
Making the system more like workfare is welcome.
In the long run, workfare impact also increases because of the type of recipient who is served.
We will relabel our employment programs "workfare," but the bulk of the caseload will still be untouched by them, and they will have no more impact on dependency than before.
The new Job Seekers' allowance, an item in the same speech, moves Britain a step further towards US-style workfare. Whatever Labour may say about harshness, these measures are in the spirit of the recent report of the left's social justice commission.
A low-quality 'workfare' scheme, where workers get benefit 'plus', would be a real mistake.
New evidence suggests that the administration's insistence on workfare is appropriate.
Du Pont garnered attention, if not widespread support, with his provocative approach to certain issues such as mandatory drug testing in high schools, a workfare program to replace welfare, and a private alternative to Social Security.
Past federal job-training programs have not had impressive results, and the current wave of innovative workfare experiments have had only modest success.
The other, more controversial provision requires that states create workfare programs, or community work projects, and require part-time participation for one adult in each two-parent family on welfare.
Negotiations throughout the week produced a number of Senate concessions to the Reagan administration, including a provision phasing in mandatory workfare for one adult in two-parent families on the rolls.
Welfare officials celebrating the first anniversary of Mississippi's workfare program say they've shown that even the nation's poorest state can take those who have never had a steady job or who haven't worked in years off the dole.
Forty-four states have a workfare program tied to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, according to federal officials in Washington.
The lawmakers left town for a three-week recess amid signs of increasing frustration at the Reagan administration's adamant opposition to any bill that does not include a workfare provision.
There were signs at week's end that some Senate Democrats closer to Reagan's position on the workfare requirements than the House negotiators might prefer a showdown with the White House rather than bow to it.
His workfare training later allowed him to select from among several print shop job offers _ at what he said is a livable salary.
Concern was expressed, however, over the potential for job substitution. One of the most controversial ideas being considered by the government is 'workfare'.
Now what we're trying to do is teach people to fish." Most of the ventures aren't traditional "workfare" programs trading government welfare checks for jobs.
A recent General Accounting Office report on state workfare experiments concludes: "Evaluations of the work programs have shown modest positive effects on the employment and earnings of participants.
Conservative lawmaker Robin Squire supports this Thatcherite concept of "workfare," but opposes cutting welfare payments.
As L. Gordon Crovitz notes nearby, the ACLU even opposes workfare on the ground that welfare recipients cannot be required to do anything in exchange.
For conservatives, "workfare" means requiring the recipients to work off their welfare grants by performing low-skilled services for local agencies.