Education in Brazilian Social Programs: poverty and work

Abstract

This article approaches the role of formal education as a conditionality to Brazil’s social programs. The analysis focuses on developing social cash transfers programs to evidence the moral, political, and cultural foundations that maintain access to formal education as central to eliminate poverty in a long way. In this sense, the role of education as a conditionality serves to manage aspects of convincement about social mobility expectations between the beneficiaries in poverty and unemployment. Therefore, formal education is an argument that validates cash transfer programs to balance tensions and antagonism between opposite classes.