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Sir Keir has called the current benefits system "unsustainable, indefensible and unfair", discouraging people from working while producing a "spiralling bill".

"Welsh government is discouraging the whole industry," he claimed, accusing ministers of seeing it as a "cash cow to be milked".

Some perceived the term for the lowest level as failure and noted that it “was often received as discouraging or demotivating,” the report said.

Musk’s layoffs are also likely to produce a massive brain drain, driving talented managers out of the civil service and discouraging young people from joining.

A Republican proposal ostensibly aimed at discouraging noncitizens from voting in federal elections — an act that is already illegal and rarely happens, experts say — could have another effect: discouraging women from taking part in democracy.