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The Theory Behind Government’s Cruelest Paperwork

Slate · September 19, 2026 at 7:00 AM

The Theory Behind Government’s Cruelest Paperwork

Annie Lowrey explains the “ordeal mechanism theory,” the idea that government benefits should be hard to get.

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