Making Ends Meet
\V ITH Question Mark the controversial subject emerges from its4 cloud, and because such topics are uppermost in people’s minds they are better informed and have more concrete suggestions to make than on less vital matters. "Should. Food Subsidies be Abolished?" is, of course, a_ really burning topic. One member of the panel, suggesting that white bread was subsidised while the Department of Health advocated the use of brown bread, overlooked the fact that wheat itself is the object of the subsidy. The economist on the panel, while disapproving of subsidies and _ believing that the child allowance ought not to be increased if they were removed, made the fine point that food is not the beginning and end of welfare. But surely the provision of basic necessities does, in innumerable instances, mean _ that extra money is allotted to the cultural life he so much supports. Indeed, having listened to more than one economist, I have the feeling that they are not touched by that constant struggle to make ends meet which still, in the lives of those in the lowest income group, makes life mean and hard, or drives the wife out to work when her influence in the home is most needed.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 11
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207Making Ends Meet New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 11
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