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The new welfare rules made short-term behaviour that was destructive in the long term profitable for the poor
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What Charles Murray actually said
- Charles Murray Political scientist, born in 1943
The first effect of the new rules was to make it profitable for the poor to behave in the short term in ways that were destructive in the long term.
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↗Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (Basic Books, 1984)archive.org
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