How has the welfare state contributed to Britain's position at the bottom of a league table for child well-being across 21 industrialised countries?
Let's hope that Gordon Brown does not use this report to justify a further re-distribution of wealth to unemployable parents who raise equally unemployable children!
"Quite simply, it's not really rewarding to re-enter the workforce if you are either a lone parent or a second earner" - Jean-Philippe Cotis, chief economist at the OECD.
A single mother moving back into work would have to forfeit 101.3 per cent of the extra cash she earned because of the extra tax, childcare costs, and relinquished benefits payouts.
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