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Benefit cuts: Monday (1st April) will be the day that defines this government

Categories: Articles:Social Justice | Published: 02/04/2013 | Views: 1219
Those on low incomes, after all the vicious talk dismissing them as cheats and idlers, will be hit by an avalanche of cuts
Not many know what is about to happen on Monday: neither those about to be knocked down nor those sailing too high above them to notice. But historians will see it as the day that defines the Cameron government.  An avalanche of benefit cuts will hit the same households over and over, with no official assessment of how far this £18bn reduction will send those who are already poor into beggary. (Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, Thursday 28 March)



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