While it can provide income possibilities, it is also often criticized for generating unrealistic expectations, unevenly distributing benefits, and exacerbating social differences (Orlove and Brush 1996; Marcus 2001; West and Brockington 2006).
This is part of the modern doctrine of a compassion-free conservatism that's using the fog of the fiscal crisis to push a program of perverse wealth inequality as sound economic policy: The only way to jump-start the economy is to slash taxes on the wealthy and on companies; the only way to compensate for the deficits that those tax cuts exacerbate is to slash benefits to the poor and vulnerable.
There are other claims, too -- that there's an epidemic in malingering exacerbated by overly generous benefits, that poor screening and lax rules allow abled-bodied people to collect benefits, that there's a widespread "double-dipping" problem, and that loopholes allow people to collect benefits while working.
A further complication is that some therapies might initially exacerbate symptoms before providing benefits.
The common assumption that instructor-assigned groups of random students are better (Jacobs and Hall, 2002; Roseth et al., 2008) is in direct contradiction with our data and may preferentially benefit males, exacerbating gender inequities.
Several participants felt that concerns over benefits were exacerbated by a general lack of feedback to research subjects about study results, particularly in light of widespread confusion about 'research' versus 'clinical care', from which patients routinely received some benefit, often in the form of a medication, treatment, or a return to health.
More important, this benefit exacerbates the distortions produced by Treasury's bailout of too-big-to-fail firms while also allowing Treasury to further mask the true cost of the TARP".
But it will continue in an economic and cultural climate hostile to the "other", exacerbating costs and limiting the benefits.
But the help with family responsibilities is wholly inadequate, and exacerbated by pathetically small state benefits for the elderly and the disabled.
For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest.
