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US Workfare: Neither Deliverance Nor Delusion
Author(s) -
Addison John T.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1988.tb01557.x
Subject(s) - workfare , delusion , political science , political economy , sociology , psychology , law , psychiatry , welfare
Has workfare worked in the United States? Professor John Addison of the University of South Carolina describes the experiments with workfare in the United States and concludes that although more research is needed the idea could be adapted successfully for other countries including Britain.