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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Sonal Chokshi Retweeted Claire Lehmann
I saw this as a fair observation not in terms of not giving money [also: am a big believer in doing so to help opportunity] -- but in pointing out that there are often other factors at play [which frankly is why money alone is not enough/ a quick fix]https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1098422322254344193 …
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Claire LehmannVerified account @clairlemonTo clarify: I'm not saying that poverty is simply caused by addiction, it clearly isn't. All I'm saying is that the idea that redistributing resources ALONE will somehow magically solve the problem of poverty is naive bordering on delusional.Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
why don't we just let the US-based cash transfer experiments, that build off promising experiments in Sub-Saharan Africa, run their course and then make decisions on *data* rather than a classic psychological bias against an "undeserving poor" cc
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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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Also btw, if you've ever spent time with people living in extreme poverty in the US ***and*** the organizations that try to help them outside of money, you realize most of them are grossly underresourced relative to the scale of the problem & povertyhttps://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Homeless-Outreach-Team-helps-nudge-SF-s-street-13301396.php?t=423ee9442b …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @JHWeissmann and
yes many of the orgs that do the best and most important work all round are grossly underresourced
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