Interesting.
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In this article, Andrew Dunn presents research which finds that many unemployed people prefer living on benefits to undertaking jobs which would increase their income, but which they consider unattractive.
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I'd highly recommend for some historical background from way back when
Workers or Shirkers? Ian Hislop's Victorian Benefits.
I think it's fair to say that attitudes to welfare can be too polarised and there's a strong temptation to simplify the issue into those who care and want to help and those evil people, usually Tories, who want to run the poor down when it's really not that simple.