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Don Bacon: “Frankly, it means if you can navigate your way on to enough benefits, it doesn't matter whether or how much you work.”

On the recordJuly 11, 2021
Frankly, it means if you can navigate your way on to enough benefits, it doesn't matter whether or how much you work.
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Don Bacon
Republican · Nebraska

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the disincentives of benefits affecting work motivation.

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