{"id":175121,"date":"2025-05-21T08:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=175121"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:26:45","slug":"opinion-opinion-when-welfare-works-as-an-exclusion-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=175121","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Opinion | When Welfare Works As An &#8216;Exclusion&#8217; Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Targeted welfare&#8221; often functions as an exclusion engine. While it&#8217;s meant to ensure benefits reach the most deserving, in reality, it forces people to chase endless paperwork only to face denial.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b&#8221;Targeted welfare&#8221; often functions as an exclusion engine. While it&#8217;s meant to ensure benefits reach the most deserving, in reality, it forces people to chase endless paperwork only to face denial.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Targeted welfare&#8221; often functions as an exclusion engine. While it&#8217;s meant to ensure benefits reach the most deserving,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":175122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg.jpeg",650,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg.jpeg",640,394,false],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg.jpeg",640,394,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg.jpeg",650,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ration-card-istock_650x400_41457107665-gKpBKg-590x400.jpeg",590,400,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}