Work Requirements are Trash

About This Project

Summary

In this series with NPQ and accompanying paper co-authored by subject expert Ife Finch Floyd and staff of CLASP and the Maven Collaborative, we lay out the myriad reasons that work requirements are racist, sexist and ineffective.

Goals & Objectives

This project was intended to debunk the economic and social arguments in favor of work requirements, while also laying out the history of their roots in slavery. Ultimately, the goal is to inform the public and shift political sentiment away from their use.

Results & Impact

We created a resource that brings together both the economic, historical and narrative reasons work requirements do not work. This is a resource that has been shared with policymakers and spread to the public in a special NPQ Black History Month series.