The Obama administration must dream up an explanation for why it is proceeding on a fiscal course that even his Government Acountability Office ( Overview: Federal Debt and the Fiscal Outlook) concludes is unsustainable.

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Ministers are modelling their strategy on the family intervention project adopted by the last Labour government, in which a single social worker is sent in to gain an overview of the problems facing a family and to recommend the best course of action.

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