Friday, January 4, 2013

Does the Left really want to end poverty? – Telegraph Blogs

 

The statistical evidence of the past twenty years has become overwhelming: that getting a job is by far the best route out of poverty, that benefit dependency tends to turn temporary hardship into permanent poverty, and that free markets can deliver mass prosperity more effectively than any other form of economic system. It is time for the debate to move on. The old fashioned socialist dogma – that only the state can "lift people out of poverty" – is not just wrong. It is pernicious.

Does the Left really want to end poverty? – Telegraph Blogs

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