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The payments also come with no strings attached — no requirements to document work hours or assets, or sit through humiliating interviews to plead deservingness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2021

It has also been co-opted into a badge of honor—a synonym for hard work, effort, even deservingness.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2019

“Part of our narrative around deservingness is linked to assumptions and beliefs about morality,” says Celeste Watkins-Hayes, professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University.

From The Guardian • May 31, 2018

Economic insecurity is intertwined with their sense of deservingness, which is a very cultural notion.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2017

It was the way he spoke, the way he looked, his general patheticness, his very helplessness, and deservingness.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy