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So the UK looks to being prepared for a move to WorkFare if Pat McFadden (UK welfare secretary) is to be believed.
The new work programme for young people will be seen he said on Sky News, 'both an offer [and] an obligation'; failure to engage with the work programme will, ha stated pretty clearly mean the withdrawal of benefits.
Once again our political class is demonising the workless, assuming being out of work is voluntary; which for many is just not true!
#politics #unemployment
h/t FT
In 1999 the Conservative government in Ontario, Canada, passed an ‘Ontario Works’ law that had a provision for workfare “as a last resort.”
A professor of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton did a study on the results.
The abstract states:
“This article asks particularly how the work of workfare and the complex and costly workfare infrastructure is justified in the face of its failure to lead to employment.
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In addition … an argument is developed that the normative justification for workfare is based not on the effectiveness of workfare programmes, but on the belief that clients need to exchange their work for welfare and self‐improvement so that they appear ‘employment ready’ even if not employed.”
A Universal Basic Income would be easier to implement and studies on pilots have shown it can be effective at getting people off welfare.
(With your academic credentials you may be able to download the full report.)
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