Why punishing poor kids became popular
How to rebuild support for the welfare state
The older I get the more wary I become of using emotionally-loaded language. Throw around terms like “wicked” and “repellent” too often and you find the only people left in the auditorium are the minority that already agrees with you.
My self-denying ordinance notwithstanding, the two-child benefit cap the UK’s Conservative party introduced in 2017 is a …
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