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Is the 2015 Budget Regressive for Poorer Families?
Geoff Riley
9th July 2015
The July 2015 budget was championed as improving work incentives for poorer households. But there are many claiming that welfare reforms and benefit cuts will actually worsen poverty among hundreds of thousands of the working poor. Here is a selection of tweets surrounding reaction to the Budget.
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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