we just keep learning that giving money to poor people works www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A.'s BIG:LEAP experiment gave monthly payments to poor families for a year with no strings attached. Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds.
Just waiting on the study which proves that giving the money to billionaires instead has no positive impact at all.
this is like that thing where they keep discovering by accident that ice cream is good for you and then they throw that info into a corner to be ignored because the ice cream being bad for you was supposed to be the obvious part of the study
"That included landing better jobs, leaving unsafe living conditions and escaping abusive relationships." The right would love to shut this down fast and tight. They hate that this would help women be independent.
Basic Income: Works at reducing poverty and increasing nation's GDP Supply Side Tax Cuts: Works at increasing the wealth of the rich and making everyone more impoverishe GOP: More Supply Side Tax Cuts work!
Maybe we need another pilot or five
But did we really? Perhaps we should run another study to be extra super duper sure... /s Just once, I'd love to see some policy follow one of these.
Gonna sell the philanthropists a “nationwide pilot” that lasts 15 years. Let’s get all the data and then do some analysis on impact, but only after 15 years
"learning" isn't really accurate, it seema
Given the choice between (a) spending X dollars by giving it to poor people and ending homelessness and (b) spending 3X dollars to arrest and harass them, Republicans will choose (b) every time.