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27 November 2012

The Work Programme destroyed a job for every £4600 it spent

Not a paragon of efficiency.

By Alex Hern

The government is now trying to spin the Work Programme figures, as expected, by focusing on the initiative’s “cost effectiveness”. The BBC’s Nick Robinson, for instance, writes:

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