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What should be the role of social security in the eradication of poverty? Poverty has been a problem in Britain for a long time, more so before the Second World War, but it was not until after the war and the publication of the Beveridge report that anything really was done about it. Both the war and the reports publication led to the formation of the welfare state by the post-war Labour government. But more than fifty years on this country still experiences poverty despite various government's different policies. In fact the class divide seems to be getting larger and social exclusion is still a problem for the current New Labour government, which came to power in 1997. So how much has Social Security helped to halt poverty? Should the government intervene more in order to eradicate poverty? Since the introduction of the welfare state the eradication of poverty has always...

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