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Cuts and caps to benefits have always harmed people, not helped them into work

By Ruth Patrick, Professor in Social Policy, University of York
Aaron Reeves, Associate Professorial Research Fellow in Poverty and Inequality, London School of Economics and Political Science

Many of the measures already implemented to reduce government spending have actually pushed people further away from the labour market.

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