- Preferred label
- Public service employment
- Alternative label
- Work relief
- Broader terms
- Domestic economic assistance
- Employment
- Related term
- Civil service
- Scope note
- For the subject of public sector employment as a counter-cyclical policy measure intended to provide jobs for the unemployed as well as to provide economic assistance to distressed areas and state and local governments. Search under CIVIL SERVICE for government employment in general.
- History note
- Changed 4/1989 from non-postable term (Use WORK RELIEF).
- Change note
- Formerly TGMI term.