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Getting Britain Off The Benefits Treadmill
This week saw Labour’s key benefits reforms come into force. Ministers and their outriders in the press and social media have been arguing that measures like abolishing the two-child benefit cap will cut poverty. But everybody else sees people who work paying…
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Why Haven’t We Abolished Poverty Forever?
This article originally appeared in Centre Write, the online journal of Bright Blue where John is an Associate Fellow. In the last 40 years, the spread of capitalism to Asian ‘tiger’ economies and then India and China has meant that…
