Nationalised family, privatised state

In an article in The New York Times (October 5, 2011) titled “Nearly half of US lives in household receiving government benefit” on how US families had become increasingly dependent on federal support, Ms Sara Murray wrote: “Families were more dependent on government programmes than ever last year. Nearly half, 48.5 per cent, of the population lived in a household that received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2010.”

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