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Many of the poor benefit from social programmes.
Dressed up as a defence of the poor, benefit often has the opposite effect to what was intended.
Even where there are enough low-rent properties for the poor, benefit claimants face competition from others looking to live cheaply.
But overall it is not clear that the poor benefit from government transfers and benefits as much as you might expect.
Today there is a growing push for the nonprofit groups and banks that run such programs to reach deeper into the ranks of the poor, though there is little rigorous evidence juding whether the very poor benefit from microcredit, economists say.
And because the wealthiest get no benefits, they have no care for the quality or quantity of those services and soon demand the government spends less on them – after all, the rich pay most of the tax so why should the poor benefit?
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"We've never tried to live off low wages and poor benefits," Mr. Kelly said.
The poor benefited from the vastly greater delivery of electricity and potable water.
Many single mothers are also handicapped by low wages and poor benefits in paid employment.
The trouble is that, ultimately, these sorts of northern, poor, Benefits Street stereotypes do stick with people.
They make coffee, mow lawns and mind babies, but have low salaries, poor benefits and little upward mobility.
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