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Hello, and welcome to the Limited Means edition of Sleep Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.

I'm joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the blogger and data

scientist, mathbabe.org. Hello, Felix and everyone. Hello, Kathy. And as ever, there's

also Jordan Weissman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate. Hello, y'all. Jordan wrote something

massive for Slate about welfare reform, which is a fascinating topic.

Okay, I'm slightly being snarky here, but it is a fascinating topic.

And because you don't have time to read Jordan's 8 million word article on welfare reform,

we are going to talk about it on the podcast, and you can just listen to us talk about it instead.

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