0 unimportant work given to someone to keep that person busy --
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Senior State Department officials took the decision to divert $286 million to short-term "make-work" projects.
It was not a make-work scheme.
The youth opportunities programme was purely a make-work scheme—an opportunity to get people off the streets for six months and to pay them to do something.
One more point on that aspect: when we came into office we found an extraordinary à la carte of eccentric "make-work" schemes.
We are talking about road gangs, make-work and people painting old ladies' houses.
It is an entirely different programme from simply providing make-work schemes, which is what young people have been used to in the past.
Will they count people on their new make-work schemes and their environmental task force as unemployed?
There will be compulsion to use the make-weight, make-work dead-end youth training schemes.
Will he ensure that the scheme places every possible emphasis on long-term retraining for the future and does not become merely a "make-work" scheme?
