The report calls for a minimum income, entitlement to food benefits during the summer holidays for families on income support, and a duty on education authorities to ensure families get school uniform grants.

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"Combined with control of entitlement spending and a long-term solution to the Alternative Minimum Tax, this can have a beneficial effect on long-run growth, " the report says.

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In the short term, there are other options to do what we need to do at the bare minimum and then we can return in a serious way to tax reform and entitlement reform.

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