Welfare critic under fire after correcting ‘shockingly bad’ errors

Despite errors exaggerating results by factor of 10, Adam Perkins says findings remain ‘statistically significant’

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April 19, 2018

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April 20, 2018

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Case in point: it is not hard to make a case for basic income in the face of the draconian means-testing of British social security

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