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When trying to improve your situation makes things worse

I got a part-time job and now they want to cut my housing voucher and I will end up with less money than before I was working.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

System design punishes progress in ways that trap people in dependency rather than supporting genuine advancement.

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Worth thinking about

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