Date: April 11th, 2005

Means-testing: poverty trap?

11 April, 2005 (13:46) | Uncategorized |

Do good intentions trap people in poverty?< ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o />
 
They do in < ?xml:namespace prefix ="" st1 />Britain; this we can prove. 
 
I think we can also show convincingly that they do here. 
 
Efforts to calibrate housing affordability to households’ ability to pay can act as a powerful deterrent to raising those families’ [...]