Poverty Net

The Poverty Net is the interlocking mesh of taxes and benefits that enmesh people in poverty - damaging our incentives to earn, save, contribute and grow.

The Poverty Net is the interlocking mesh of taxes and benefits that enmesh people in poverty - damaging our incentives to earn, save, contribute and grow. The system is so complex it is hard to reform and it is understood by no one - not even government.


The publisher is The Centre for Welfare Reform.

Graphic on Poverty Net © Simon Duffy 2010.

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Graphic | 01.08.09

Basic Income, local government, social care, tax and benefits, England, Graphic

Simon Duffy

England

Citizen Network Team

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