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CEDS block — children, elderly, disabled, and students — made up right around two-thirds of all poor people
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As 2021 shows, dramatically reducing the level of poverty is not a technically challenging problem. Increasing the generosity and reach of the benefit programs for nonworking population groups can get the job done quickly even in an emergency situation and even in a country with very poor administrative capacity.
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Poverty lingers only because lawmakers do not care to reduce it any further.