Aided by an algorithm, the Dutch tax office has plunged into distress tens of thousands of families – in particular, foreign-born mothers, in wrongfully demanding from them staggering sums. The state is proving incapable of setting things right. Rotterdam. Each day, Sabrina Sliep picks up her telephone to listen to the same despairing stories. There More

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