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Thanks for dropping the "workfare" term, I just read up on it a bit. The difference between this and that, to me, is that in workfare the people had to find employment among private firms. This was trouble for some people especially given whatever the local job market was like (could be very high skill oriented, the person could have some disability, etc). The idea here would be that the government would be providing the job rather than the person being obligated to work 20 hours / week in the private sector and the government throwing them money on top of that. I mean having them get private sector employment basically says screw you to the whole group of people on welfare because they can't find private sector employment!
One concern I read about was it not working well for single mothers with lots of kids, since they don't have much time to work. I guess I'd try to solve that with daycare services for people who are in these gov't work programs.
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