Loïc Wacquant has always been somewhat unusual. A well-known ethnographer and award-winning social theorist, he is a white Frenchman who has been teaching race relations at the University of ...

In Washington, Republican lawmakers are insisting that any deal with the Biden administration to raise the federal debt ceiling be accompanied by stricter work requirements for such programs as cash ...

THE WORKFARE AGREEMENT between between Mayor Giuliani and municipal unions should put to rest petty efforts to derail the most successful welfare-to-work program in the nation. The nine-point ...

Clinton reluctantly signed the final “workfare” measure into law. Fast forward to July 12, when the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an “information ...

The editorial from Aufheben #21, which is available in print now, discussing the current workfare schemes and the struggle against them. The storm of public outrage expressed against workfare schemes ...

New state programs that require able-bodied recipients of food stamps to look for jobs generally offer little training to help them acquire skills, according to a survey of the states` plans. A dozen ...

Britain is being subjected to a savage programme of social engineering, designed to create an economy where millions work for much less than the present £5.93 an hour minimum wage. This centres on ...

Liberals in the House of Representatives voted unsuccessfully to jettison the federal work requirements established in the 1996 welfare reform law. Even worse, as the losing side of the 250-164 vote ...

The family of a 50-year-old woman who died of a heart attack during her workfare job accused the city yesterday of “murdering” her by making her toil on the Coney Island Boardwalk despite a heart ...