Bruce Headey
Bruce Headey
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I want to see then doing -- such as intervening when young people become unemployed -- but it tends to be concentrated on childhood and teenage years, and ... programs need to be made available to people over the course of their lives.
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The underclass, if there is one, is quite small and most people who fall into a position of disadvantage overcome their problems and get back on their feet, ... It's bloody hard but the message is: we shouldn't give up on people. The evidence, at the moment, is that most people who become poor don't stay poor for long, so let's not write them off.