Example sentences for: workfare

How can you use “workfare” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Only those who fail to find private sector jobs are then offered workfare jobs so they can earn their benefits.

  • It happens that workfare is an old hobbyhorse of Chatterbox's.

  • A welfare recipient compared New York's workfare program to "slavery" and protested that it was "demeaning" to clean toilets.

  • If workfare is going to be the employer of last resort, it can't pay good, union wages, or else half the city will go on welfare to get a workfare job.

  • But if they are to be made to work, they should be paid decent wages (for example, in New York City, the wages of the city workers who did those jobs before workfare).


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