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In boondoggling the gullible, Pyongyang will reap concessions from the richer, democratic and very much risk-averse South Korea.
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Some consider make- work jobs to be harmful when they provide very little practical experience or training for future careers.Peter Doeringer, B. Vermeulen, Jobs and Training in the 1980s, Boston Studies in Applied Economics, Springer, 1981, , p. 196 As a part of the New Deal, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) was in 1933 created as a stopgap measure to boost the economic relief provided by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Public Works Administration. At its peak, the CWA employed 4,230,000 people; however, President Roosevelt was wary of the specter of corruption and accusations of boondoggling, and shut the CWA down after less than a year.
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"In the first place ... it has taken the question of public housing out of the realm of debate and into the realm of fact. Second, it has established the Authority as an agency for the issuance of slum clearance bonds. Both Vincent Astor and Bernard M. Baruch accepted the Authority’s bonds to cover payments for the land - the first such bonds ever issued. In the third place, it provided an opportunity to test the Authority’s power to condemn land for slum clearance - a test which we won. Fourth, in Mayor La Guardia’s words, it provided us with 'Boondoggling Exhibit A.'" The test which the Housing Authority won was the right to exercise the powerful tool of eminent domain.
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