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The poor are not the problem with the welfare system …
Porter spoke enthusiastically of “tailored metrics” and “a very significant, maybe close to revolutionary, new direction in welfare reform”. But there is nothing revolutionary, or even close to revolutionary, in blaming young people for a lack of employment opportunities. There is nothing tailored about arbitrarily withholding support. Until this government engages with all forms of entitlement, especially those of privilege, there will be no “new direction” and nothing that resembles “reform” in any meaningful sense. Instead there will be the same demonisation of the same group, the one who can least respond to it: the poor.
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The Saturday Paper