There is a massive amount of economics research showing that giving poor people money improves their quality of life, educational outcomes, and health outcomes.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1098411338953482241 …
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which, by the way, is the most Anglo-Puritan rooted cultural bias of them all in that there is a deserving poor and an underserving poor that we then use to post-hoc rationalize offering seriously substandard support to low-income segments relative to other Westernized countries.
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Well, to be fair, there is evidence that if you give transfers that are conditional on people *not* working, they'll work less.
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