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OPINION: What's wrong with David Seymour's welfare reform is what no one noticed

How ACT's plan for child poverty is exactly what the system wants.
 
Nathan Smith talks about David Seymour and the welfare state on NBR Radio and on demand on MyNBR Radio.

Nathan Smith
Tue, 12 May 2015

OPINION

A call to help people off welfare benefits and into jobs will sound to most people like a goose chase. However, it comes from ACT MP David Seymour, which means he’s going to tell you it’s an easy task – and it isn’t.

Reforming the current welfare structure is all but impossible unless one

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Nathan Smith
Tue, 12 May 2015
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