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Welfare plan 'needs healthy labour market'

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The government's radical plan for transferring up to a million people from benefits to work, the Welfare to Work scheme, is launched today.

Senior economist at The Work Foundation Neil Lee and Roy O'Shaughnessey, chief executive of the Careers Development Group, try and answer the big question: will it work?


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