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When middle-class families fall through social safety nets

My disabled brother needs full-time care but the state says our family makes too much money for assistance, even though we can't afford private care.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Systems designed to help the most vulnerable often create arbitrary cliffs that punish families for modest success.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

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