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Avon DeRussate 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

"UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/02/uk-austerity-policies-premature-low-birth-weight-babies-scotland

UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’

Exclusive: Researchers who studied babies in Scotland believe cuts to benefits and services are linked to rise

^{Linda Geddes (The Guardian)}

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Pippin 11 hours ago friendica

Lives measurably altered for the worse, just in order to adjust some numbers in banks' computers. Why not just alter those numbers directly, without hurting people to do it.