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Answer» What is Workfare mean? Workfare is a governmental plan under which welfare recipients are required to accept public-service jobs or to participate in job training. The term was first introduced by civil rights leader James Charles Evers in 1968; however, it was popularized by Richard Nixon in a televised speech August 1969. An early model of workfare had been pioneered in 1961 by Joseph Mitchell in Newburgh, New York. reference
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