This message seemed to be reinforced by preliminary results from the government's two workfare pilot schemes.
Well, he's an HHS deputy assistant secretary for policy and the architect of the workfare waiver.
He could have said more that was daring about welfare reform and about workfare.
Demonstrations were held in both cities by protest groups, including UK Uncut and Boycott Workfare, and trade unions.
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Calling their bluff by offering them workfare might actually lower the welfare bill.
Whether President Bill Clinton would sign off on legislation that would exempt workfare jobs from the minimum wage remains unclear.
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Giuliani talked of personal responsibility and individual empowerment as he proposed ideas such as workfare and a sell-off of city hospitals.
Workfare was ruled out, however, on the grounds that it would cost far too much to offer work to all the long-term jobless.
America's experience of workfare suggests that there are social benefits from giving jobs to the long-term unemployed, but that workfare is not cheap.
Long-term unemployment among middle-aged professionals, who do not qualify for workfare, is on the rise, says Leong Sze Hian, a financial expert and blogger.
They have now found a way via an HHS regulatory "information memorandum" in July that said the agency would waive workfare requirements if states asked.
If the Tories are right, and there are lots of fraudulent claimants to be scared off unemployment rolls by workfare, Mr Blair might get lucky.
For one thing, he public will not take the idea of expanding workfare seriously while we are 25 million jobs short of full employment, and real wages are falling.
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India's growth was also shored up by government outlays, such as a generous pay rise for state employees, the cancellation of small farmers' debts, and the expansion of its rural-workfare scheme.
Nevertheless, in February the government enthusiastically expanded the number of workfare pilots and, in the unlikely event that the Tories are re-elected, they would probably extend their version of workfare to the entire country.
It prefers to stress the help it would give to the jobless in finding them work they would want to have, rather than the cost savings, and to emphasise the carrot in its workfare scheme, not the stick.
"In every state except Mississippi, the combination of welfare and food stamp benefits is already high enough that someone in workfare working 20 hours a week as required by the welfare law would already be receiving the minimum wage or better, " he said.
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