“We can solve the poverty trap”, the Prime Minister claims. The coalition aims to do this by “simplifying” benefits – which seems to mean reducing them – and ensuring people are better off in work than on welfare. One way to accomplish the latter might be to double the national minimum wage – or even treble it. However, it is still not entirely clear what these jobs people are going to be made to do actually are, as the private sector allegedly picks up the slack as thousands of public sector staff are forcibly returned to the market place.
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