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Ministers accused of 'burying' damning report on impact of benefits cuts | Society | The Observer

This reminds me of when the Thatcher goverment ignored warnings that their policies would create youth homelessness in the 1980s, and within a fortnight of said policies being implemented, I started regularly seeing young people begging in central Manchester. Before that, the only homeless people I came across appeared to be middle-aged alcoholics.

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