That's how poverty works. The socially excluded might not be ifjournalists wrote about them.
The Financial Times reported Jim Murphy, the minister responsible forchild poverty, saying the benefit system will never pay enough to lift alone parent with two young children out of poverty. "And I don't thinkit should."
Kate Green, director of the Child Poverty Action Group, was aghast. Shereckoned the minister seemed to believe the welfare state should not aimto lift people out of poverty even when genuinely incapable of work."That is a remarkable statement."
So remarkable, few papers reported it.
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