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Families and benefit cuts

What are the effects on stress, for parents and teenagers?

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In this episode, host Chris Coates asks how families are affected by benefit cuts and fluctuating incomes – with guests Gabriele Mari, assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Sara Ogilvie, Director of Policy, Rights and Advocacy at the Child Poverty Action Group.

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