Critics of welfare argue that by subsidising long term detrimental behaviours, such as being long term unemployed, welfare hurts the poor more than it helps. Economists worry about this since giving cash to the poor moves them to a higher 'indifference curve', so it cant make them worse off: Giving free money and benefits to the poor could destroy their incentive to get skills and used to the idea of working in exchange for their livelihood
2006-09-25
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