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welfare work

 
–noun
the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
Origin:
1905–10
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welfare work  
n.   Organized efforts by a community, organization, or agency to improve the socioeconomic conditions of disadvantaged groups in society.
welfare worker n.
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welfare worker

noun
someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) [syn: social worker] 

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