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Bureaucracy’s role in poverty
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7 min readOct 20, 2021
The new Netflix series, Maid, is the story of a young mother escaping an abusive husband to make a safe life for herself. There are many obstacles in her quest to provide for her child, but perhaps none as large and infuriating as government bureaucracy. More importantly, the government bureaucracy that’s supposed to help her. The volume of forms and…
