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Green shoots of recovery can help break the cycle of poverty

An embattled government trying to get over its bad behaviour in the gardens of power – and having not quite got the economy back to where it was going – is struggling over what can be done about inflation. Add to this the threat of European war, and it seems that many things have coalesced to bring grief to the forefront. The strongest call seems to come from those who have said that the government should bring relief to people in need by increasing social security. Government should absorb some of

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