In a report on social mobility, Reform argues that using benefits to cut poverty has had the unintended consequence of removing incentives to work. "There is a sense in which the benefits system is paying people to be poor," it states. The researchers claim that, over the past thirty years, the number of children who either live in poverty, or would live in poverty if it weren't for benefits, has risen from 2.4m to 3m. They argue that the benefits...