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Labelling people as poor from a young age can become a "self-fulfulling prophecy" which may "doom whole generations", Paul Uppal has said. Writing exclusively for PoliticsHome, the Conservative MP warns of the danger of the "poverty label", and insisted that his party is right to say that "work has to pay more than benefits".
20/04/2012 in Welfare
Labelling people as poor from a young age can become a "self-fulfulling prophecy" which may "doom whole generations", Paul Uppal has said. Writing exclusively for PoliticsHome, the Conservative MP warns of the danger of the "poverty label", and insisted that his party is right to say that "work has to pay more than benefits".
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