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In the last section we saw that low pay was a considerable cause of families living in want, and that Beveridge had devised Family Allowances to protect the children of large families against this. But the scale of Family Allowances had been reduced, and this made it likely that large families where the head of the household was earning only a low wage would suffer from want.
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© 1972 Dudley Jackson
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Jackson, D. (1972). Low Pay. In: Poverty. Macmillan Studies in Economics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01403-3_3
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